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" 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
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" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "
Robert Penn Warren
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" The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. "
Edward Hirsch
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" If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. "
Octavio Paz
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" So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. "
Tracy K. Smith
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" I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. "
Hallie Ephron
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Family
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" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "
J. Courtney Sullivan
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" I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. "
Derek Walcott
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" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "
Derek Walcott
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" From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. "
Jhumpa Lahiri
Literature
Poetry
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" Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. "
Plutarch
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Silent
Painting
" The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision. "
Edward Hirsch
Experience
Simple
Reading
" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "
Mohsin Hamid
Live
Deal
Life
" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "
Rita Dove
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" A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others. "
David Mamet
Know
People
Good
" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "
Octavio Paz
Question
Books
End
" And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. "
Norman MacCaig
Question
Taught
Think
" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Drink
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Fountain
" Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing. "
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" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "
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" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "
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Means
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" Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. "
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" There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. "
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" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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" I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read. "
Edward Hirsch
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" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "
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Poetry
" 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
Time
Thinking
Think
" The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. "
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Poetry
" We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. "
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" The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. "
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