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" Poetry is life distilled. "
Gwendolyn Brooks
Distilled
Poetry
Life
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" In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. "
Fanny Howe
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Me
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" Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. "
F. Sionil Jose
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" I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...' "
Gary Oldman
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Winter
" 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
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Beauty
" I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world. "
Earl Sweatshirt
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" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "
Eminem
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Really
" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry
Mirror
Beautiful
" Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. "
Wislawa Szymborska
Respect
Work
I Am
" And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. "
Norman MacCaig
Question
Taught
Think
" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "
Robert Frost
Words
Emotion
Found
" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "
Philippe Petit
Life
I Am
Science
" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "
Novalis
Inflicted
Heals
Poetry
" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "
Khalil Gibran
Joy
Poetry
Wonder
" What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. "
Soren Kierkegaard
Beautiful
Heart
Music
" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "
Derek Walcott
Beautiful
People
Poetry
" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "
Jenny Lewis
Poetry
Friend
Music
" The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. "
Patti Smith
Sacrifice
Poetry
Bible
" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "
Jim Morrison
You
Poetry
Possibilities
" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "
Alfred de Musset
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True
Three
" Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Practice
Honor
Poetry
" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "
Virginia Woolf
Poetry
True
Best
" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "
Derek Walcott
Poetry
Where
Sing
" 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
" Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. "
Eileen Myles
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" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "
Rupi Kaur
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Me
" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "
Octavio Paz
Question
Books
End
" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "
Bernardo Bertolucci
Camera
Poetry
Reality
" It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. "
Charles Baudelaire
Drunk
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" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "
Carol Ann Duffy
Always
Win
Women
" I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us. "
Rita Dove
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