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" Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. "
Charles Simic
Poetry
Silence
Them
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" A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. "
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Work
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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
Cheap
Poetry
Place
" One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany. "
Chris Jordan
War
Poetry
Culture
" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "
June Jordan
Political
Act
Because
" In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief. "
Patrick Kavanagh
Love
Poetry
Judge
" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "
Eileen Myles
Poetry
People
Look
" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "
Stephen Greenblatt
Love
Language
Poetry
" 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
" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "
Seamus Heaney
Ring
Within
Truth
" Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. "
John Updike
Writing
Sea
Criticism
" I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Death
Poetry
Know
" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "
Helen Dunmore
You
Writing
Words
" While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. "
David Antin
Far
Song
Poetry
" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
John Ruskin
Clearly
Prophecy
Religion
" And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. "
Mark Strand
Culture
Like
Poetry
" I've written poetry most of my life. "
Julia Michaels
Life
Written
My Life
" There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. "
Khaled Hosseini
Poetry
Tradition
Great
" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "
William C. Bryant
Thought
Most
Imagination
" 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
" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "
Edward Hirsch
Solitude
Feeling
Night
" Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. "
Sarah Kay
Great
Say
Storytelling
" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "
Marilynne Robinson
Poetry
Knowledge
Like
" So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. "
Tracy K. Smith
Thinking
Distance
Poetry
" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Metaphor
Slang
Poetry
" 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
" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "
Taylor Swift
Think
Saying
End
" Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. "
Taylor Swift
Lyrics
Page
Bounce
" Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. "
Erica Jong
Poetry
School
Think
" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "
Vikram Seth
Sad
Think
Story
" 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
Poetry
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