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" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "
Adrienne Rich
Poetry
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" Superstition is the poetry of life. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "
Bertrand Russell
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" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "
Thomas Mann
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" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "
Carl Sandburg
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" 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
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" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Almost
Civilization
" I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. "
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" I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. "
Adrienne Rich
Back
You
Know
" I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. "
David Antin
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Thought
" I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. "
David Knopfler
Illusion
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Best
" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "
Socrates
Wisdom
Poetry
Find
" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "
Edward Hirsch
Dream
Trying
Create
" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "
Norman MacCaig
Got
Nothing
Poetry
" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "
Muhammad Iqbal
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Truth
Then
" I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. "
Russell Simmons
Want
Words
You
" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "
Robert Frost
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Politics
Poetry
" 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
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You
" Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. "
Archibald MacLeish
Journalism
Poetry
Man
" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "
Joseph Bruchac
American
Small
Words
" We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. "
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" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "
Wislawa Szymborska
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Vacuum
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" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "
Dylan Walsh
Father
Me
Name
" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "
Umberto Eco
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Feelings
Matter
" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "
Rebecca Sugar
Time
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Fun
" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "
T. S. Eliot
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Personality
Know
" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "
Jean Cocteau
Always
Liar
Who
" I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. "
Philippe Petit
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Art
Me
" It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. "
Adrienne Rich
Time
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" I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. "
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