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" Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "
David Whyte
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" When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice. "
Edward Hirsch
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Words
" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "
Rita Dove
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" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
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" To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. "
Susan Vreeland
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" 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
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" 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
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Now
" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "
Neil Gaiman
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Want
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" Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. "
Mark Strand
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" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "
Seamus Heaney
Threshold
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" What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' "
Giles Andreae
Think
Better
Connect
" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Plato
Even
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" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "
Sean Bean
Wildlife
Surprise
Poetry
" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "
David Whyte
Interesting
Just
Poetry
" The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it. "
David Whyte
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Greatest
Having
" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "
James Fenimore Cooper
Life
Imagination
Religion
" I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head. "
Michel Houellebecq
You
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Poetry
" Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. "
John Betjeman
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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. "
Eileen Myles
Stars
Wind
Celebrate
" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "
John Trudell
Poetry
Feelings
Own
" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "
Edmund Burke
Art
Nothing
Shadows
" My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point. "
Tobias Hill
Love
Will
Suits
" 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
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College
Lost
" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "
Joseph Roux
Expression
Poetry
Exquisite
" I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. "
Kenny Loggins
Vision
Done
Head
" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "
Vanessa Redgrave
Alive
Go
Living
" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "
Pablo Neruda
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Voice
River
" The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. "
Margaret Walker
People
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Memories
" 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
Poetry
Heart
Like
" Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. "
Maria Shriver
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Thought
Poetry
" Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. "
Ernst Haas
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Speak
Poetry