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" Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. "
Tim O'Brien
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" When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story. "
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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. "
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" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "
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" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "
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" The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational. "
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" The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far. "
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" Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. "
John Keats
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" One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. "
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" I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. "
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" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "
E. M. Forster
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" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "
Bishop Briggs
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" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "
Jim Harrison
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" I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. "
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" I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. "
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" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "
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" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "
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" How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? "
Maria Montessori
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" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
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" Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure. "
Billy Collins
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" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "
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" Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. "
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" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "
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" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
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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. "
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" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "
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" 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. "
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" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "
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" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "
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