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" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "
Elia Kazan
Acting
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Poetry
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" 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
" More modern poetry is written than read. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Than
Read
Modern
" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "
William Rose Benet
Honey
Lips
Poetry
" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "
Khalil Gibran
Joy
Poetry
Wonder
" Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Work
Mind
Never
" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "
David Whyte
Interesting
Just
Poetry
" I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. "
Rick Springfield
Kids
Dark
Poetry
" There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. "
Edward Young
Beyond
Poetry
Mystery
" When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. "
Douglas Coupland
Poetry
Speak
Voice
" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Necessary
Poetry
Poet
" Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. "
Sarah Kay
Great
Say
Storytelling
" 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
Over
Try
Sadness
" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "
Joseph Roux
Expression
Poetry
Exquisite
" One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. "
Voltaire
Than
Will
Poetry
" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "
Kapil Sibal
Fabulous
Poetry
Thoughts
" 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
" Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. "
Rita Dove
Nothing
Worthy
Measure
" 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
" 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
" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
Don Marquis
Waiting
Rose
Grand Canyon
" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "
Alice Walker
Great
Me
Muse
" I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed. "
Elia Kazan
Acting
Experience
Yourself
" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "
Umberto Eco
Language
Feelings
Matter
" Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. "
Rita Dove
You
Teachers
Poetry
" Superstition is the poetry of life. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poetry
Life
Superstition
" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "
Paul Dirac
Poetry
Science
Way
" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "
Eminem
Read
Think
Poetry
" As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations. "
Edward Hirsch
Been
Long
Poetry
" I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering. "
Yusef Komunyakaa
Know
Poetry
Say
" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "
John Ashbery
Poetry
Head
Going