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" I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. "
Elizabeth Edwards
Poetry
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" My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them. "
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" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "
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" I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry. "
James Tate
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" Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. "
Elizabeth Edwards
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Good
Furniture
" 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
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Purpose
" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "
Helen Thomas
" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "
John Cage
Possess
Poetry
Nothing
" Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. "
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Adolescence
Poetry
Preserved
" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Mind
Enjoy
Person
" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "
Stephen Greenblatt
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Language
Poetry
" 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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Storytelling
" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "
F. Sionil Jose
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Grief
Love
" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "
Allen Ginsberg
Want
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Say
" The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. "
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Moment
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" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "
Lady Gaga
Relationship
Pain
History
" Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. "
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Like
Ignores
" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "
William Hazlitt
Nature
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" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "
Denis Villeneuve
Essence
Making
Camera
" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "
Mark Strand
American
Poetry
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" A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. "
Anne Stevenson
Feelings
Thinking
Human
" I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. "
Elizabeth Edwards
Research
Aggressive
Way
" 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. "
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Sad
Think
Story
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Stephen Spender
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Go
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Writing
Sea
Criticism
" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "
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Live
Deal
Life
" I hope I have important things to say. "
Elizabeth Edwards
Hope
Important
Say
" Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. "
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" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "
Erica Jong
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