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" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "
John Barton
Conversation
Reading
Sometimes
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" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. "
Dennis Gabor
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" For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means. "
Rupi Kaur
Honey
Know
Me
" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
Strike
Own
Poetry
" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "
John Ciardi
Enough
Suffering
You
" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "
Rebecca Sugar
Time
Adventure
Fun
" I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. "
Leonard Cohen
Yourself
Thought
Kind
" 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
Upset
I Can
Appreciate
" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "
Chuck Berry
Love
Know
Poetry
" Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. "
Andrew Motion
You
Good
Family
" 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
" 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
" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "
Jim Morrison
Achieve
Feel
People
" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "
Leonard Cohen
Evidence
Poetry
Well
" I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry. "
James Tate
Poetry
Training
Imagination
" If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. "
Rainer Maria Rilke
Daily Life
Life
Blame
" Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. "
David Lee Roth
Without
Music
Poetry
" Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. "
Paramahansa Yogananda
Beautiful
Great
Music
" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "
T. S. Eliot
Up
Emotions
Feelings
" The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Sense
Song
Flowing
" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. "
Paul Engle
Power
Ideas
Poetry
" When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry. "
Mary Szybist
Say
Poetry
Myself
" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Mature
Immature
" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "
Joy Harjo
Live
You
Poetry
" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "
Flea
Art
Poetry
Music
" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "
Maya Angelou
I Am
Work
Saying
" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Mind
Enjoy
Person
" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "
John Masefield
Common Sense
Sense
Poetry
" Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral. "
Derek Walcott
Missing
Alive
Look
" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "
Alice Walker
Raising
Rebellion
Revolution
" 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
Life
Moment
Music