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" The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose. "

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" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "

" In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! "

" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "

James Fenimore Cooper

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

" 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. "

" 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

" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "

" Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. "

" 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. "

" I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. "

" Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. "

" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "

" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "

" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "

" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "

" I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. "

Gail Carson Levine

" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "

" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "

" When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. "

" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "

" There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. "

" Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! "

" I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "

" In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief. "

Patrick Kavanagh

" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "

" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "

Bernardo Bertolucci

" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "