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" Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. "
Sylvia Plath
Best
You
Poetry
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" I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. "
Satya Nadella
Reading
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" Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. "
J. K. Rowling
Way
Myself
Poetry
" I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too. "
Judith Viorst
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Child
Father
" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "
Octavio Paz
Question
Books
End
" Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Remember
Poetry
New
" I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce. "
Sylvia Plath
New York
Chef
Eating
" Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. "
Abbas Kiarostami
Always
Difficult
You
" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "
Jean Cocteau
Roses
Bother
Poet
" The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "
Frederick William Robertson
Poetry
Think
Make
" Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! "
Lord Byron
Which
Stars
Space
" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "
Michael Eric Dyson
Brilliance
Hip-Hop
Poetry
" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "
Robert Penn Warren
Grow
Your
Poetry
" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Poetry
Then
Men
" The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. "
Lionel Trilling
Weather
Forget
Poet
" This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? "
Azar Nafisi
Time
Good
Marriage
" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "
Paul Auster
Food
Bread
Money
" Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. "
Claire Tomalin
Time
Poetry
Think
" 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
" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "
Joshua Sasse
Life
Push
Big
" It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. "
Sylvia Plath
My Life
Moment
Positive
" To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Inspiration
Poetry
Occupation
" If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. "
Wallace Stevens
Hopes
Aspirations
Same
" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "
Floyd Skloot
Years
Poetry
Her
" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Science Fiction
Poetry
Limits
" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
Alice Walker
Raising
Rebellion
Revolution
" I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives. "
Sylvia Plath
Red
Green
See
" I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "
John Cage
Saying
Say
Am
" 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
" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "
Bishop Briggs
Poetry
Dark
Escape
" 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