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" The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. "
Margaret Walker
People
Poetry
Memories
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" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "
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" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "
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" Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides. "
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" Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. "
Wislawa Szymborska
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" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "
Gertrude Stein
" Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. "
Paramahansa Yogananda
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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
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" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "
Robert Frost
Wrong
Begins
Lump
" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "
Eileen Myles
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Look
" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "
Paloma Elsesser
Within
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Writing
" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "
Sylvia Plath
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Stopping
Jet
" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "
John Masefield
Become
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" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "
Neil Gaiman
Put
Want
Together
" My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is. "
Clint Smith
Opportunities
Me
Life
" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "
Virginia Woolf
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True
Best
" There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. "
Phil Ochs
Look
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" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "
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Time
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" All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. "
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Poetry
You
" We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. "
Elvis Costello
Romantic
Music
Bad
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Grief
Love
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Act
Because
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Feel
People
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Worry
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Flowers
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" I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. "
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