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" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "
Horace Walpole
Way
Art
Beautiful
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" Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour. "
Patrick Kavanagh
Colour
End
Irish
" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "
Romesh Gunesekera
Island
Special
Poetry
" I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty. "
Roberto Benigni
Reach
Poetry
Beauty
" There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. "
John Ashbery
Poetry
Army
Life
" I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. "
Bindi Irwin
Tea
Old People
People
" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "
John Singer Sargent
Thought
Certain
Talent
" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "
John Updike
Myself
Write
Say
" Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. "
Muriel Rukeyser
Hope
Poetry
Will
" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "
Robert Frost
Words
Emotion
Found
" 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. "
Graham Joyce
Film
Poetry
Internet
" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "
Allen Ginsberg
Want
Poetry
Say
" As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. "
N. Scott Momaday
Statement
I Am
Human
" Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.' "
Tony Harrison
Try
Poetry
Point
" There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. "
Bo Burnham
Blurred
Music
Mind
" 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 never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. "
Horace Walpole
Juvenile
Miles
Search
" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "
Salvatore Quasimodo
Own
Personal
Feeling
" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "
Don McLean
Last
Pie
Now
" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Necessary
Poetry
Poet
" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "
Sherman Alexie
Time
You
People
" 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
Beyond
Go
I Am
" Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which
Poetry
Contain
" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "
Seamus Heaney
Ireland
Used
Northern Ireland
" The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Age
Reason
Poetry
" 'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. "
Phillipa Soo
Opening
Poetry
First
" I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. "
Norman MacCaig
Poetry
American
Less
" The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. "
Basil Bunting
Poetry
Moment
Explain
" Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. "
Huston Smith
Truth
Poetry
She
" I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. "
Norman MacCaig
Writing
Mean
Never
" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "
Eminem
Poetry
Read
Really