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" It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. "
Jenny Holzer
Work
Start
Poetry
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" If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. "
David Carradine
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" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "
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" 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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" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "
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" I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't! "
Jenny Holzer
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Started
" 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
" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "
Seamus Heaney
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Go
I Am
" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "
Tony Harrison
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Heart
Like
" I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all. "
Caterina Fake
Competition
College
Lost
" 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
" But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Beauty
Poetry
Achieving
" I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. "
Paul Auster
Paris
Poetry
Breathing
" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "
Flea
Art
Poetry
Music
" One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. "
Clint Smith
See
Career
Engineering
" Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. "
Mary Karr
Suffering
Poetry
Passion
" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "
Norman MacCaig
Teach
You
Poetry
" Superstition is the poetry of life. "
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Poetry
Life
Superstition
" Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. "
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Important
" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "
Terrance Hayes
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See
Realize
" I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. "
Rick Springfield
Kids
Dark
Poetry
" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "
Eileen Myles
Stars
Wind
Celebrate
" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "
Edward Hirsch
Solitude
Feeling
Night
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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Poetry
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Russell Baker
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Until
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Nelsan Ellis
Writing
Bullied
Poetry
" Sloppy thinking gets worse over time. "
Jenny Holzer
Over
Worse
Time
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Peter Davison
Like
Poetry
Poems
" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "
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