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" I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry. "
Mohit Chauhan
Poetry
Writing
Used
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" One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. "
Mary Oliver
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" 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
" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "
Robert Frost
Wrong
Begins
Lump
" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Making
Credit
" 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
" Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. "
Octavio Paz
Poetry
Morality
Manifest
" One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. "
Stephen Sondheim
Difference
Poetry
Page
" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "
John Ciardi
Enough
Suffering
You
" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "
Derek Walcott
Poetry
Where
Sing
" There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. "
Philip Levine
Poetry
Memory
People
" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
Own
Almost
Poetry
" One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. "
Voltaire
Than
Will
Poetry
" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Experience
Mind
" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "
Eminem
Poetry
Read
Really
" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "
Robert Frost
Grief
Politics
Poetry
" I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. "
Will Cuppy
Poetry
Age
Country
" The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day. "
Mohit Chauhan
Election
Process
Way
" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "
Joseph Roux
Truth
Sunday
Poetry
" I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish. "
Gloria Estefan
Thinking
Singing
Me
" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "
Tom Waits
Kind
Word
Poetry
" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "
Horace
Poems
Water
Poetry
" The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. "
James Broughton
Joy
Explosion
Poetry
" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "
Helen Dunmore
You
Writing
Words
" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "
Herbert Spencer
Never
Know
Poetry
" Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. "
Mary Oliver
Way
Your
You
" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "
Georges Braque
Poetry
Ray
Reality
" My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts. "
Taika Waititi
Theatre
Poetry
Mother
" Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. "
John Berger
Way
Become
Connection
" 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
" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "
Rickie Lee Jones
Best
Think
Poetry