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" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "
Joshua Sasse
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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
Act
Line
" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Heart
Learning
Also
" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "
Robert Frost
Gets
Lost
Poetry
" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "
Michael Eric Dyson
Brilliance
Hip-Hop
Poetry
" There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps. "
Billy Collins
Mean
Interesting
Want
" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "
Mark Strand
American
Poetry
Personal
" Poetry is the deification of reality. "
Edith Sitwell
Poetry
Reality
" Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. "
Lucille Clifton
Language
Just
Life
" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "
Seamus Heaney
Beyond
Go
I Am
" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "
Tony Harrison
Poetry
Heart
Like
" I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. "
Shelby Foote
Writing
Trying
Find
" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "
Allen Ginsberg
Place
Say
Speak
" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "
Thomas Mann
Birth
Solitude
Poetry
" Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. "
Eileen Myles
Day
Language
Poetry
" Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. "
Walter Pater
Find
Beauty
Art
" The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. "
Edward Hirsch
Alone
You
Poetry
" Always be a poet, even in prose. "
Charles Baudelaire
Poet
Poetry
Prose
" I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them. "
Donald Hall
Man
Myself
Poetry
" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Making
Credit
" If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. "
Wallace Stevens
Hopes
Aspirations
Same
" The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. "
Lewis Thomas
Worry
Growth
Flowers
" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "
William C. Bryant
Prose
Poetry
Eloquence
" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "
Seamus Heaney
General
Go
Literature
" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "
Mark Strand
Great
Writing
People
" There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. "
David Whyte
Poetry
Fierce
Whole
" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "
Virginia Woolf
Poetry
True
Best
" Dancing is the poetry of the foot. "
John Dryden
Foot
Dancing
Poetry
" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "
Edward Hirsch
Great
Deep
Integrity
" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "
Caterina Fake
Single
Poetry
Memorize
" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "
Herbert Spencer
Never
Know
Poetry