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" It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. "
Tom Hanks
Always
Find
Head
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" To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Inspiration
Poetry
Occupation
" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "
Jim Harrison
Keep
Alive
Write
" I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. "
Ben Okri
Past
Way
Day
" 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
" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "
Chuck Berry
Love
Know
Poetry
" A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. "
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Time
Only
Most
" I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. "
Rita Dove
I Am
Interest
I See
" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "
Edgar Allan Poe
Passion
Been
Me
" Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. "
Simon Callow
Just
Work
Visionary
" 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. "
Taylor Swift
Think
Saying
End
" Every single soul is a poem. "
Michael Franti
Poem
Poetry
Single
" I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Poetry
Power
Believe
" I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good. "
Tom Hanks
Good
Made
Them
" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "
Keith Haring
Swallowed
Been
Up
" 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
Down
Words
Skills
" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "
William Hazlitt
Nature
Poetry
Language
" In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. "
Danielle Steel
Years
Late
Lot
" Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. "
Archibald MacLeish
Journalism
Poetry
Man
" 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat. "
Claire Tomalin
Treat
Look
Poetry
" I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination. "
Edward Hirsch
Football
Writing
Know
" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "
John Ciardi
Enough
Suffering
You
" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "
Seamus Heaney
Way
Cannot
Poetry
" The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire. "
Tom Hanks
You
Possibilities
Nature
" 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. "
Rupi Kaur
Kind
Because
World
" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "
Brit Marling
Law
Poetry
People
" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry
Paper
Alas
" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "
Seamus Heaney
General
Go
Literature
" But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time. "
Tom Hanks
People
History
Time
" My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house. "
Tom Hanks
Baby
Looking
Me
" Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. "
Seamus Heaney
Emotional
Poetry
Great