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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. "
Jesmyn Ward
Poetry
World
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" Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. "
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" Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "
David Whyte
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" There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
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" You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. "
Stephane Mallarme
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" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "
Bertrand Russell
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" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "
Sebastian Lelio
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" Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. "
Octavio Paz
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" 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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Me
" Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. "
Octavio Paz
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" I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people. "
Jesmyn Ward
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" What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. "
Erica Jong
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Death
Beginning
" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "
Floyd Skloot
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Poetry
Her
" That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. "
Walter Pater
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Sense
Poetry
" Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. "
F. Sionil Jose
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Short
Elegance
" I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. "
Hannah Kent
Poetry
Deep
Writing
" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "
J. K. Rowling
Story
Garden
Love
" I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to. "
Jesmyn Ward
Love
Celebrate
Born
" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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Poetry
Poet
" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "
Vanessa Redgrave
Alive
Go
Living
" 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
End
Body
Work
" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "
Ed Koch
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People
" I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. "
Maya Angelou
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Poetry
" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "
William Hazlitt
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Life
Poetry
" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Then
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" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
Alice Walker
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Revolution
" I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to. "
Kevin Young
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" Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. "
Mary Lambert
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" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "
Jean Cocteau
Roses
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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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" 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
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