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" I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. "
David Antin
Remember
Poetry
Thought
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" I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. "
Maya Angelou
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" I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. "
Randall Jarrell
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" I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. "
Camille Paglia
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" In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief. "
Patrick Kavanagh
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" I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain. "
George Packer
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" Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. "
Franz Grillparzer
Journey
Science
Art
" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "
William Shenstone
Diseases
Consumption
Most
" A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sweet
Darkness
Own
" But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Beauty
Poetry
Achieving
" One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany. "
Chris Jordan
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" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. "
Dennis Gabor
Poetry
Making
Music
" What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. "
Soren Kierkegaard
Beautiful
Heart
Music
" Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "
Octavio Paz
World
Vision
Poetry
" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "
John Masefield
Common Sense
Sense
Poetry
" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "
Flea
Art
Poetry
Music
" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Me
Know
" I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. "
Shelby Foote
Writing
Trying
Find
" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "
Mark Strand
Great
Writing
People
" I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "
Derek Walcott
Write
Same
Always
" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry
Cheese
Subject
" Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. "
Simon Callow
Just
Work
Visionary
" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "
David Whyte
Life
Large
Kind
" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "
Seamus Heaney
Domestic
Most
Art
" I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. "
David Antin
Quite
Unsatisfied
I Am
" Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. "
Mary Karr
Suffering
Poetry
Passion
" I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know. "
David Antin
College
Valley
Know
" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "
Joshua Sasse
Life
Push
Big
" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "
Kapil Sibal
Fabulous
Poetry
Thoughts
" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "
John Updike
Myself
Write
Say
" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
Alice Walker
Raising
Rebellion
Revolution