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" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "
George Steiner
Poetry
Father
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" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "
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" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "
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" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "
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" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "
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" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "
Joseph Roux
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" More modern poetry is written than read. "
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" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "
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" Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. "
George Steiner
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" 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. "
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" There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. "
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" Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. "
James Broughton
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" I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll. "
Patti Smith
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" 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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" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "
W. H. Auden
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People
Experience
" Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. "
Muriel Rukeyser
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" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "
John Singer Sargent
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" What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. "
Soren Kierkegaard
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Heart
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" The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. "
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" I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world. "
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Poetry
" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "
William Hazlitt
Worth
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Poetry
" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "
Paul Celan
Sort
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" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "
Robert Frost
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Lost
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" I see poetry as spiritual medicine. "
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" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "
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" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "
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" To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. "
George Steiner
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" 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
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" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "
Alice Walker
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" The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. "
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