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" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "
Eileen Myles
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" I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. "
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" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "
Richard Eyre
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" There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. "
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" I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words. "
Kamal Haasan
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" I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. "
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" For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means. "
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" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "
Philippe Petit
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" I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose. "
Eileen Myles
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" I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core. "
Jessica Steen
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Deep
" 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
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" I've written poetry most of my life. "
Julia Michaels
Life
Written
My Life
" Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. "
Ernst Haas
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Speak
Poetry
" If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.' "
Taylor Mali
You
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" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "
Wallace Stevens
People
Listening
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" Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' "
Mahmoud Darwish
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Change
" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Hard
Anything
" 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
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Poetry
Say
" Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. "
Russell Baker
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Poetry
Until
" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "
Horace
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Poetry
" In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. "
Fanny Howe
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Me
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" I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. "
Mark Strand
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" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "
Jean Cocteau
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Who
" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "
Paul Auster
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" I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung. "
Jill Scott
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" I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. "
Nigel Lythgoe
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Art
" However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. "
James Schuyler
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" The crown of literature is poetry. "
W. Somerset Maugham
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" We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. "
Elvis Costello
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Music
Bad
" I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. "
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