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" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "
Paul Dirac
Poetry
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" The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it. "
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" The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. "
June Jordan
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" I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. "
Camille Paglia
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" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "
Gary Hamel
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" When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. "
Douglas Coupland
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" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "
Taylor Momsen
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" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "
Octavio Paz
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" I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. "
Jacques Derrida
" I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. "
Sue Monk Kidd
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Reading
Time
" Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! "
Lord Byron
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Stars
Space
" Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure. "
Billy Collins
You
Imagination
New
" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "
T. S. Eliot
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Little
More
" I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. "
Maya Angelou
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Worst
Sometimes
" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
Geometry
You
True
" Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. "
Kenneth Branagh
Sense
Dancing
Because
" Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? "
Jay-Z
Yourself
Best
Man
" Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. "
Mark Strand
Pleasure
Poem
End
" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "
Vikram Seth
Sad
Think
Story
" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "
Jim Morrison
You
Poetry
Possibilities
" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Us
Away
Book
" 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
Boy
" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "
John Masefield
Become
Printing
Poetry
" The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "
Jean Cocteau
Invent
Listens
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" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "
Carol Ann Duffy
Always
Win
Women
" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "
Goldwin Smith
Old
Poetry
Thought
" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "
Robert Frost
Words
Emotion
Found
" So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. "
June Jordan
Us
Dialogue
People
" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "
A. E. Housman
Skin
Act
Line
" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "
George Steiner
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Father
Deep
" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "
John Singer Sargent
Thought
Certain
Talent