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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
Think
Poetry
Modern
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" In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. "
Seamus Heaney
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" Poetry is the deification of reality. "
Edith Sitwell
Poetry
Reality
" This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. "
Eugenio Montale
Die
Always
Great
" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "
Joseph Roux
Truth
Sunday
Poetry
" Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. "
Victor Hugo
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Creator
Charm
" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Drink
Poetry
Fountain
" You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. "
Fred Durst
Life
Moment
Music
" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "
Thomas Mann
Birth
Solitude
Poetry
" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "
Terrance Hayes
Work
Poetry
Mirror
" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry
Cheese
Subject
" 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
Avant-Garde
Write
Thing
" Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! "
Roberto Benigni
Poetry
Sometimes
Talk
" I read poetry to save time. "
Marilyn Monroe
Save
Read
Poetry
" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
Alice Walker
Raising
Rebellion
Revolution
" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "
Vanessa Redgrave
Alive
Go
Living
" Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society. "
W. Bruce Cameron
Tough
Society
Poetry
" A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. "
Anne Stevenson
Feelings
Thinking
Human
" 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
" Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "
Octavio Paz
World
Vision
Poetry
" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "
Mary Oliver
Want
Fancy
Need
" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
True
Poetry
Geometry
" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "
Anne Stevenson
Bears
Word
Poetry
" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Autobiography
Anything
Poetry
" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "
Keith Haring
Swallowed
Been
Up
" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "
Ajay Naidu
Rhythm
Storytelling
Hip-Hop
" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "
Rupi Kaur
Language
Poetry
Me
" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
T. S. Eliot
Genuine
Before
Poetry
" The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. "
Mark Van Doren
Job
Loss
People
" One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. "
Ally Condie
Him
Guitar
Good
" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "
Clint Smith
Seriously
Poetry
Been