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" Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. "
Claire Tomalin
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" All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. "
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" I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on. "
Leonard Nimoy
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" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "
E. M. Forster
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" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "
Lewis Hamilton
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" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "
Spike Milligan
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" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "
Bishop Briggs
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" 'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular. "
Claire Tomalin
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Perfect
" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "
Stephen Spender
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Great
Go
" Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society. "
W. Bruce Cameron
Tough
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" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "
Taylor Momsen
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Enjoy
English
" 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
" I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. "
Ben Okri
Past
Way
Day
" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "
Oscar Wilde
Poet
Survive
Poetry
" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Importance
He
Finally
" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "
Kapil Sibal
Fabulous
Poetry
Thoughts
" I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. "
Maya Angelou
I Am
Writing
Poetry
" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "
Adrienne Rich
Poetry
Relationship
Power
" Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. "
Mary Lambert
Job
Work
Strive
" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Bread
Break
" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "
Robert Frost
Wrong
Begins
Lump
" Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. "
Bernie Taupin
Lyrics
Insult
Call
" Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. "
Georges Seurat
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Poetry
Only
" It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do. "
Jamila Woods
Voice
Poetry
My Own
" I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. "
Mark Strand
Limits
Believe
Poetry
" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "
Edgar Allan Poe
Passion
Been
Me
" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "
Paloma Elsesser
Within
Poetry
Writing
" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "
Seamus Heaney
Threshold
More
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" You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. "
Fred Durst
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Moment
Music
" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Anything
Poetry
" Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Poetry
Grass
Growing