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" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
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Poetry
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" I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "
Suzan-Lori Parks
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" I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. "
Mary Pope Osborne
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Love
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" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "
Niels Bohr
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" Always be a poet, even in prose. "
Charles Baudelaire
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" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cheese
Subject
" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "
Norman MacCaig
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You
Poetry
" One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. "
Stephen Sondheim
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" I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. "
Rick Springfield
Kids
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Poetry
" I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. "
Hannah Kent
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" I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work. "
Derek Walcott
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" The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. "
Graham Joyce
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Poetry
Internet
" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "
Seamus Heaney
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More
Poetry
" I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. "
Azar Nafisi
Soul
People
Poetry
" There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. "
Phil Ochs
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Poetry
Song
" Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. "
Billy Collins
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Voice
Visual
" Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. "
Ernst Haas
Picture
Speak
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" Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. "
Walter Pater
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Beauty
Art
" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "
Mary Oliver
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Fancy
Need
" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "
James Broughton
Real
Few
World
" I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. "
Leonard Cohen
End
Body
Work
" When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. "
John F. Kennedy
Arrogance
Diversity
Man
" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "
Goldwin Smith
Old
Poetry
Thought
" The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. "
John Keats
Only
Nothing
Mind
" I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Think
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" My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. "
Sarah Kay
Wisdom
Thought
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" I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. "
Boris Pasternak
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Down
Grass
" Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
Geometry
Precise
Thing
" Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. "
Seamus Heaney
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Poetry
Your
" I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. "
Norman MacCaig
Writing
Mean
Never
" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "
Robin Coste Lewis
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