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" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "
Leonard Cohen
Group
Singing
Poetry
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" My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca. "
Leonard Cohen
Heroes
Yeats
Great
" Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. "
Simon Callow
Just
Work
Visionary
" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "
Sylvia Plath
Growing
Poetry
Great
" Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Poetry
Intelligence
Science
" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "
Lewis Hamilton
Guitar
Poetry
Kid
" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "
Mary Pilon
Game
Woman
She
" Superstition is the poetry of life. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poetry
Life
Superstition
" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "
Jim Morrison
Achieve
Feel
People
" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "
Satyajit Ray
Poetry
Music
Listening
" You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. "
Mario Cuomo
You
Prose
Campaign
" And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart. "
Leonard Cohen
People
Women
Heart
" Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Practice
Honor
Poetry
" It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. "
Tom Hanks
Always
Find
Head
" The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. "
Erik Satie
Animals
Poetry
Art
" In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. "
Seamus Heaney
War
Poetry
Violence
" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "
Russell Baker
World
Myself
Like
" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "
Clint Smith
Seriously
Poetry
Been
" I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Life
Spent
" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "
Adrienne Rich
Poetry
Relationship
Power
" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "
John Ciardi
Truth
Poetry
Way
" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "
Leonard Cohen
Evidence
Poetry
Well
" Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Work
Mind
Never
" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Metaphor
Slang
Poetry
" The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far. "
Robert Schumann
Music
Talent
Light
" I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. "
Robert Battle
Community
Song
Poetry
" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. "
Paul Engle
Power
Ideas
Poetry
" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "
Denis Villeneuve
Essence
Making
Camera
" Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. "
Octavio Paz
Future
Poetry
Progress
" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "
K'naan
Powerful
Poetry
Pure
" There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature. "
Derek Walcott
Landscape
Work
Poetry