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" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "
Jose Bergamin
Novel
Born
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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. "
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" It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime. "
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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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" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "
Gary Hamel
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Doing
" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
John Ruskin
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" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "
Andres Segovia
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" Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
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" In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. "
Abbas Kiarostami
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" Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way. "
Jose Bergamin
Anywhere
You
Going
" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "
Jim Morrison
You
Poetry
Possibilities
" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. "
A. E. Housman
Understanding
Perfect
Meaning
" To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. "
Jose Bergamin
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Drink
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" It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. "
Charles Baudelaire
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Poetry
Wine
" 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
Like
Writing
Up
" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "
James Broughton
Real
Few
World
" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
Don Marquis
Book
Poetry
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" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "
Brit Marling
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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
Feel
Respect
Poetry
" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "
Seamus Heaney
Unexpected
Life
Fact
" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "
Wole Soyinka
Poetry
Art
School
" The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female. "
Teresa Palmer
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" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "
Robert Penn Warren
Grow
Your
Poetry
" There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. "
Philip Levine
Poetry
Memory
People
" You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. "
Mario Cuomo
You
Prose
Campaign
" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
John Ruskin
Clearly
Prophecy
Religion
" I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. "
Sasha Grey
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" Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. "
Rita Dove
Nothing
Worthy
Measure
" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "
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Reading
Way
" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "
Joni Mitchell
Poetry
Narcissistic
Lot
" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "
Edward Hirsch
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World
Never