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" The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world. "
Derek Walcott
Love
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" There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. "
Bo Burnham
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" But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. "
Chinua Achebe
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" 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
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" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "
Goldwin Smith
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Thought
" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "
T. S. Eliot
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" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "
A. E. Housman
Skin
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Line
" Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. "
Russell Baker
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" The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. "
Erik Satie
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" I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often. "
Derek Walcott
Caribbean
Awards
Happen
" I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. "
Sharon Creech
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People
Me
" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "
H. L. Mencken
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Must
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" A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it's kind of exploited. "
Derek Walcott
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Say
Beach
" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "
Marilynne Robinson
Poetry
Knowledge
Like
" He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. "
John Clare
Die
Trees
Green
" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "
Michael Eric Dyson
Brilliance
Hip-Hop
Poetry
" Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield. "
Billy Collins
Cheap
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Place
" To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry. "
Lucy Larcom
Blue
Trees
Poetry
" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "
Rita Dove
Poetry
Time
Lens
" I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself. "
Hozier
Got
Yourself
Reading
" 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
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Blame
" 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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People
" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "
Rupi Kaur
Language
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Me
" This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. "
Eugenio Montale
Die
Always
Great
" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "
Kapil Sibal
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Thoughts
" Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. "
Archibald MacLeish
World
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Poetry
" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "
Wallace Stevens
Words
Your
Love
" The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island. "
Derek Walcott
Walking
Personal
Body
" I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. "
David Knopfler
Illusion
Poetry
Best
" Poetry is the deification of reality. "
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