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" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "
Paul Celan
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" I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. "
Maya Angelou
Myself
Brother
Time
" Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral. "
Derek Walcott
Missing
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Look
" Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. "
Sarah Kay
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Art
People
" When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things. "
Jamila Woods
Talk
Song
Poetry
" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "
David Hockney
Poetry
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You
" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "
Howard Nemerov
Way
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" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "
Paloma Elsesser
Within
Poetry
Writing
" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "
Mark Strand
Poem
Turned
Poetry
" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "
Sturgill Simpson
Road
You
Bridge
" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "
Bishop Briggs
Poetry
Dark
Escape
" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "
Anne Stevenson
Bears
Word
Poetry
" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "
Richard Eyre
Creative
Poetry
People
" 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
" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "
Billy Collins
You
Children
Hate
" Every single soul is a poem. "
Michael Franti
Poem
Poetry
Single
" A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. "
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Write
Work
Tranquility
" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "
Terrance Hayes
Work
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Mirror
" I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. "
Norman MacCaig
Poetry
American
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" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "
Ed Koch
Canvas
Poetry
People
" Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. "
Rita Dove
Nothing
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Measure
" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Action
Poetry
Also
" I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable. "
Marv Levy
Think
Serious
Poetry
" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Vocation
Calling
" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "
Andres Segovia
Guitar
Poetry
Music
" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. "
Joseph Joubert
Will
You
Find
" There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. "
Philip Levine
Poetry
Memory
People
" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "
Wallace Stevens
People
Listening
Boy
" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "
Robert Frost
Wrong
Begins
Lump
" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "
Alfred de Musset
Memorable
True
Three
" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "
Misha Collins
Poetry
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