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" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "
A. E. Housman
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" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "
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" But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. "
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" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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" Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. "
Joseph Roux
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" The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. "
Muriel Rukeyser
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" I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on. "
Leonard Nimoy
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" Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
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" Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. "
Seamus Heaney
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" I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. "
Leonard Cohen
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" There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. "
John Ashbery
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" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "
Robert Frost
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Lost
Poetry
" I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. "
Janine Turner
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Always
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" I see poetry as spiritual medicine. "
Mahmoud Darwish
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I See
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" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "
Jim Morrison
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Feel
People
" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "
Marv Levy
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First
Me
" Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. "
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" It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Monuments
Edgy
" The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. "
Muriel Rukeyser
Sources
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" I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. "
Robert Pinsky
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" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "
Donald Hall
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" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "
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" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "
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Life
" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
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" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "
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" The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting. "
Edward Hirsch
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" I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. "
Derek Walcott
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" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "
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About
" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "
Mark Strand
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Writing
People
" In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. "
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Language