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" I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. "
Laura Dern
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" 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. "
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" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "
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" There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps. "
Billy Collins
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Want
" Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives. "
Robin Coste Lewis
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" I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to. "
Tracy K. Smith
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Me
" I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too. "
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Father
" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "
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" 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. "
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Money
" Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. "
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" Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. "
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Life
" I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky. "
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Lucky
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Only
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Moment
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You
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Feel
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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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" 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. "
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" When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else. "
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You
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