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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
Thinking
Distance
Poetry
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" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "
Jose Bergamin
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Born
Despair
" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "
Misha Collins
Poetry
Like
Well
" 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. "
Lady Gaga
Relationship
Pain
History
" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "
W. H. Auden
Responsibility
Poet
American
" There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. "
Edward Young
Beyond
Poetry
Mystery
" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "
Caterina Fake
Single
Poetry
Memorize
" If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. "
Wallace Stevens
Hopes
Aspirations
Same
" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "
Mark Strand
Poem
Turned
Poetry
" My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time. "
Herschel Walker
Love
Good
Me
" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
World
Never
" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "
Stephen Greenblatt
Love
Language
Poetry
" Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. "
John Updike
Writing
Sea
Criticism
" I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all. "
Caterina Fake
Competition
College
Lost
" I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. "
Robert Pinsky
Place
Driving
Calm
" For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. "
Robert Pinsky
Value
Art
Love
" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "
Erica Jong
Creativity
Writing
Proud
" I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet. "
Jenny Zhang
Summer
School
Poetry
" Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama. "
Donna Brazile
Poetry
Her
King
" 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
" So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. "
June Jordan
Us
Dialogue
People
" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "
J. Carter Brown
Arts
Like
Poetry
" 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
" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "
Sean Bean
Wildlife
Surprise
Poetry
" I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look. "
Derek Walcott
Look
Poetry
Night
" The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing. "
Marcus du Sautoy
Why
Doing
Feel
" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
Alice Walker
Raising
Rebellion
Revolution
" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Us
Away
Book
" 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 write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "
Derek Walcott
Write
Same
Always
" I've written poetry most of my life. "
Julia Michaels
Life
Written
My Life