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" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "
Jack Prelutsky
Reading
I Can
Poetry
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" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "
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" One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself. "
Edward Hirsch
Deep
Feeling
Poetry
" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "
Jose Bergamin
Novel
Born
Despair
" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "
John Cage
Possess
Poetry
Nothing
" Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. "
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry
Like
Ignores
" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "
Russell Baker
World
Myself
Like
" I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Think
Watching
" There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. "
Philip Levine
Poetry
Memory
People
" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "
William C. Bryant
Prose
Poetry
Eloquence
" I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam. "
Jamila Woods
Poetry
People
Chance
" I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. "
Derek Walcott
Up
Writing
Prayer
" If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything. "
Alice Oswald
People
Poetry
Light
" I see poetry as spiritual medicine. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Poetry
I See
Medicine
" I'm never bored. "
Jack Prelutsky
Never
Bored
" 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
" I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "
Suzan-Lori Parks
Get
Give
Love
" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "
Wole Soyinka
Poetry
Art
School
" 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
" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "
Gary Hamel
Stupid
Create
Doing
" I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. "
Alfred Nobel
Now
Poetry
Purpose
" You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative. "
Kehinde Wiley
Colour
People
You
" With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Man
Determination
Best
" 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 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
Fact
Sense
Poetry
" Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. "
Edward Hirsch
Thinking
Walking
Key
" Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. "
Rita Dove
Nothing
Worthy
Measure
" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "
Satyajit Ray
Poetry
Music
Listening
" 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
Love
Will
Suits
" Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. "
Jack Prelutsky
Myself
Poetry
Blessed
" In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. "
Seamus Heaney
Heart
Students
Learn