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" That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. "
Walter Pater
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" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "
Edward Hirsch
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" I read poetry to save time. "
Marilyn Monroe
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" Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. "
Walter Pater
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" The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational. "
Edward Hirsch
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" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "
Jim Harrison
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" I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going. "
Edward Hirsch
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" I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. "
Elizabeth Edwards
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" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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" Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. "
Tracy K. Smith
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" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "
Derek Walcott
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" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "
Khalil Gibran
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" I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. "
Derek Walcott
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" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "
Billy Collins
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" I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. "
Maya Angelou
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Sometimes
" Every single soul is a poem. "
Michael Franti
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" 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
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" Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. "
Ezra Pound
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" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "
Helen Thomas
" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "
Seamus Heaney
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" 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
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" The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. "
Mark Van Doren
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" I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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" I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination. "
Edward Hirsch
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" Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. "
Sarah Kay
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" 'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. "
Phillipa Soo
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" How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? "
Maria Montessori
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" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "
Howard Nemerov
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" Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. "
Erica Jong
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" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "
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