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" The crown of literature is poetry. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Crown
Poetry
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" 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
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" I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. "
Roger Waters
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Best
" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "
Erica Jong
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" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "
Norman MacCaig
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You
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" I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing. "
Rupi Kaur
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" Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. "
Tim O'Brien
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Pace
" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "
Edward Hirsch
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Experience
Mind
" But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Beauty
Poetry
Achieving
" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "
David Whyte
Life
Large
Kind
" Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. "
John Keats
Poetry
Should
Great
" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "
Victor Hugo
Poetry
Development
Epic
" The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Comfortable
Thought
Anger
" Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. "
Dennis Potter
Reach
Children
Poetry
" 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
" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "
Allen Ginsberg
World
Awareness
Only
" 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
Way
Said
Poetry
" I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. "
Carol Ann Duffy
Still
Read
Poems
" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "
Seamus Heaney
Threshold
More
Poetry
" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "
Norman O. Brown
Freedom
Rules
Poetry
" 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
" Writing is the supreme solace. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Writing
Communication
Supreme
" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "
Jose Marti
Grain
Poetry
Season
" 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
" The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "
Jean Cocteau
Invent
Listens
Poetry
" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "
William Shenstone
Diseases
Consumption
Most
" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "
William Hazlitt
Worth
Life
Poetry
" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. "
Dennis Gabor
Poetry
Making
Music
" I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. "
Jesmyn Ward
Poetry
World
Reading
" At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. "
W. Somerset Maugham
Talk
Dinner
Eat
" There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. "
Rupi Kaur
Woman
Poetry
Love