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" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "
James Broughton
Real
Few
World
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" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "
Mark Strand
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" Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. "
Robert W. Service
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You
Poetry
" Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. "
David Whyte
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Future
Life
" More modern poetry is written than read. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "
Derek Walcott
Write
Same
Always
" Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. "
Rita Dove
You
Teachers
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" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Autobiography
Anything
Poetry
" I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. "
Rick Springfield
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Poetry
" 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
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Dancing
Because
" 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
" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "
Spike Milligan
Over
Try
Sadness
" 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. "
Mario Batali
College
Day
Hair
" Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. "
John Berger
Way
Become
Connection
" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Science Fiction
Poetry
Limits
" You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. "
Willem Dafoe
Got
Role
More
" Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. "
Francisco Goya
Together
Like
Nature
" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "
John Ciardi
Truth
Poetry
Way
" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "
William Rose Benet
Honey
Lips
Poetry
" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "
Wallace Stevens
Words
Your
Love
" The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. "
Muriel Rukeyser
World
Modern
Nothing
" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "
Marilynne Robinson
Poetry
Knowledge
Like
" Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. "
Jorge Luis Borges
Before
Oral
Art
" Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. "
Tracy K. Smith
Thought
Feelings
Language
" He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. "
John Clare
Die
Trees
Green
" I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...' "
Gary Oldman
Simple
Stand
Winter
" 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
" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "
John Singer Sargent
Thought
Certain
Talent
" I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. "
James Broughton
Ageless
Still
Happy
" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Changing
Help
" I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher. "
Khalid
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Music
Love