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" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "
Robert Frost
Gets
Lost
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" Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. "
Walter Scott
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Grace
Children
" Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. "
Russell Baker
Vital
Poetry
Until
" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "
Rick Fox
You
Just
Me
" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "
Misha Collins
Poetry
Like
Well
" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "
Howard Nemerov
Within
Talk
Sometimes
" I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some. "
Anya Taylor-Joy
Reading
Thought
Way
" 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
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Friend
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" I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. "
Naguib Mahfouz
Yourself
Relax
Poetry
" 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
You
Imagination
New
" I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering. "
Yusef Komunyakaa
Know
Poetry
Say
" The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. "
John Tyler
Poetry
Page
Live
" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Head
Top
Poetry
" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "
Rita Dove
Powerful
Poetry
Language
" Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. "
Octavio Paz
Poetry
Morality
Manifest
" I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. "
Mark Strand
Poetry
America
Clear
" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "
Keith Haring
Swallowed
Been
Up
" Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. "
Bette Midler
Set
Rap
Poetry
" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "
Macklemore
More
Reading
Way
" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "
George Steiner
Poetry
Father
Deep
" I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. "
Tom Wesselmann
Months
Deal
Got
" I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. "
Roger Waters
Father
Creativity
Best
" 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. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Think
Thinking
" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Plato
Even
Poetry
" 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
Forget
Us
Think
" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "
John Trudell
Poetry
Feelings
Own
" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "
Brit Marling
Law
Poetry
People
" Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. "
Robert Frost
Accept
You
Own
" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "
Horace Walpole
Way
Art
Beautiful
" 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
" Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. "
Archibald MacLeish
Words
Football
Life