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" 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
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" I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look. "
Derek Walcott
Look
Poetry
Night
" The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Reading
Myself
" Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. "
John Updike
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Sea
Criticism
" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
Own
Almost
Poetry
" Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. "
Jorge Luis Borges
Before
Oral
Art
" I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. "
Margaret Atwood
Sound
Words
Me
" I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination. "
Edward Hirsch
Football
Writing
Know
" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "
Eileen Myles
Poetry
People
Look
" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "
Gary Hamel
Stupid
Create
Doing
" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "
Derek Walcott
Beautiful
People
Poetry
" I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. "
Maya Angelou
Poetry
Worst
Sometimes
" To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Inspiration
Poetry
Occupation
" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
Oscar Wilde
Poetry
Bad
Feeling
" Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. "
Joseph Roux
Poetry
Who
Those
" I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. "
Eileen Myles
Same
Against
Health
" 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
" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "
Billy Collins
You
Children
Hate
" In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. "
Danielle Steel
Years
Late
Lot
" A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. "
Walter Pater
Important
Consciousness
Temper
" All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. "
Norman MacCaig
Fishing
Poetry
You
" The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world. "
Derek Walcott
Love
World
Poetry
" Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. "
Natalie Merchant
Me
Alive
Recitation
" Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. "
Plutarch
Speaks
Silent
Painting
" I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain. "
George Packer
War
Poetry
Goodbye
" I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. "
Satya Nadella
Reading
Become
Thanks
" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
Strike
Own
Poetry
" 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
Creativity
Writing
Proud
" Superstition is the poetry of life. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poetry
Life
Superstition
" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "
W. S. Merwin
Poetry
Lost
End
" The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing. "
Billy Collins
Poetry
Think
Writing