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" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "
Neil Gaiman
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" Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. "
Ezra Pound
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Sculpture
Real
" 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
" Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. "
Russell Baker
Will
Poetry
Airport
" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry
Mirror
Beautiful
" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "
Novalis
Inflicted
Heals
Poetry
" Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. "
Robert Fitzgerald
Elegance
Poetry
Most
" 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
" My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. "
Sarah Kay
Wisdom
Thought
Poetry
" 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
" I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. "
Bindi Irwin
Tea
Old People
People
" Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. "
Thomas Gray
Words
Burn
Poetry
" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "
Rita Dove
Poetry
Plan
Library
" It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. "
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Road
Happy
Flying
" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "
Maya Angelou
I Am
Work
Saying
" Poetry is meant to be heard. "
Mary Oliver
Heard
Poetry
Meant
" As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and strangers. And we lead our industry. "
Robin S. Sharma
Work
Impact
Influence
" As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. "
Neil Gaiman
Up
Get
Morning
" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "
J. Courtney Sullivan
Poetry
Time
Without
" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "
James Broughton
Real
Few
World
" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Making
Credit
" Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. "
Neil Gaiman
Stranger
Always
Because
" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "
Wole Soyinka
Poetry
Art
School
" I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. "
Neil Gaiman
Science Fiction
Writing
More
" I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. "
Maya Angelou
Myself
Brother
Time
" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "
Seamus Heaney
Beyond
Go
I Am
" I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper. "
Jerry Spinelli
Short
Football
Game
" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "
Karen Armstrong
Poetry
Like
Us
" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "
T. S. Eliot
Game
Career
Life
" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "
Eminem
Poetry
Read
Really
" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "
Eileen Myles
Perfect
Poetry
Live