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" I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable. "

Marv Levy

Think

Serious

Poetry

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" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. "

" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "

" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Words

Best

Poetry

" Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. "

Paramahansa Yogananda

Beautiful

Great

Music

" I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. "

" When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. "

" 'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "

" Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

Work

Mind

Never

" There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. "

" The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

Age

Reason

Poetry

" I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. "

" I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry. "

" As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and strangers. And we lead our industry. "

" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "

" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "

" Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe. "

" 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. "

" In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. "

" My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts. "

" Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. "

" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "

" I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching. "

" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "

" The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them. "

Marv Levy

Enough

Know

" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "