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" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "
John Singer Sargent
Thought
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" 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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Morality
Manifest
" I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam. "
Jamila Woods
Poetry
People
Chance
" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "
John Trudell
Poetry
Feelings
Own
" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "
Paul Celan
Sort
Homecoming
Poetry
" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "
Robert Frost
Words
Emotion
Found
" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "
Elia Kazan
Acting
Realistic
Poetry
" In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. "
Abbas Kiarostami
Still
Poetry
Darkness
" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Hard
Anything
" I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. "
Kali Uchis
Myself
Writing
School
" This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. "
Eugenio Montale
Die
Always
Great
" I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. "
Robert Pinsky
Place
Driving
Calm
" I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing. "
Rupi Kaur
Like
Writing
Up
" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "
David Whyte
Interesting
Just
Poetry
" There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. "
Philip Levine
Poetry
Memory
People
" Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. "
Mary Oliver
Way
Your
You
" I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. "
Maya Angelou
Blues
Poetry
Music
" When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things. "
Jamila Woods
Talk
Song
Poetry
" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "
Caterina Fake
Single
Poetry
Memorize
" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "
Robert Hass
Job
Justice
Time
" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "
Rita Dove
Powerful
Poetry
Language
" In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief. "
Patrick Kavanagh
Love
Poetry
Judge
" Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. "
Natalie Merchant
Me
Alive
Recitation
" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "
Seamus Heaney
Solidarity
Judging
Poetry
" The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose. "
Edward Hirsch
Speech
Poetry
Difference
" There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. "
Henry R. Luce
Poetry
Who
Write
" Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. "
Georges Seurat
I See
Poetry
Only
" If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. "
Muriel Rukeyser
Hunger
World
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. "
Roger Waters
Father
Creativity
Best
" Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield. "
Billy Collins
Cheap
Poetry
Place
" The crown of literature is poetry. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Crown
Poetry
Literature