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" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "
William Wordsworth
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" Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. "
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" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "
Robert Frost
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" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "
Erica Jong
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" 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
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" 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
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" 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. "
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" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "
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" In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. "
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" I like poems that are little games. "
Peter Davison
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" Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. "
Bernie Taupin
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" I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. "
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" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "
James Broughton
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" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "
David Whyte
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" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "
Eileen Myles
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" However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. "
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Thought
" My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. "
Edward Albee
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" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "
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" There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. "
Philip Levine
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" So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. "
June Jordan
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" That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. "
Walter Pater
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" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "
Robert Frost
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" Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. "
Allen Ginsberg
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" The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. "
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" 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
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" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "
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" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "
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" Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. "
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