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" I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. "
Alfred Nobel
Now
Poetry
Purpose
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" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "
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" Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. "
Daisaku Ikeda
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" The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. "
Seamus Heaney
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Write
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" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "
Jack Prelutsky
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" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "
Wallace Stevens
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Everything
Life
" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "
Sturgill Simpson
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" My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing. "
Dianne Reeves
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Shoes
Time
" Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos. "
Rupi Kaur
How
Poetry
Look
" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "
Vikram Seth
Sad
Think
Story
" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "
Joshua Logan
Own
Music
Melody
" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry
Paper
Alas
" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "
Jim Harrison
Keep
Alive
Write
" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "
Joseph Roux
Expression
Poetry
Exquisite
" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "
E. M. Forster
Information
Poetry
Together
" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
Don Marquis
Book
Poetry
Writing
" I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Writing
Reading
" In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. "
Norman MacCaig
Think
Doing
Me
" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "
Robert Penn Warren
Grow
Your
Poetry
" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "
Seamus Heaney
Domestic
Most
Art
" But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. "
Chinua Achebe
Poetry
Beautiful
Heart
" We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. "
John Fowles
Write
Who
Poetry
" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "
Rick Fox
You
Just
Me
" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "
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Poetry
Making
Credit
" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "
Joseph Bruchac
American
Small
Words
" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry
Cheese
Subject
" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Poetry
Soul
Writing
" Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides. "
William Ernest Henley
World
Content
Ideal
" Why should poetry have to make sense? "
Charlie Chaplin
Sense
Make
Poetry
" I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to. "
Kevin Young
Going
Think
Some
" Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. "
Sarah Kay
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Say
Storytelling