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" The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. "
James Broughton
Joy
Explosion
Poetry
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" If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life. "
James Broughton
Days
Your
Love
" Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. "
Russell Baker
Vital
Poetry
Until
" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Experience
Mind
" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
T. S. Eliot
Genuine
Before
Poetry
" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "
Salvatore Quasimodo
Own
Personal
Feeling
" Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Poetry
Intelligence
Science
" Consciousness is the glory of creation. "
James Broughton
Glory
Creation
Consciousness
" I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. "
Janine Turner
Never
Always
Poetry
" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Science Fiction
Poetry
Limits
" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Vocation
Calling
" 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
" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "
Denis Villeneuve
Essence
Making
Camera
" That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means. "
Chuck Berry
Know
Mother
Much
" There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. "
Dave Grohl
Expect
People
Poetry
" I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. "
Jewel
Just
See
Think
" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Head
Top
Poetry
" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "
Albert Einstein
Ideas
Poetry
Pure
" Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. "
Allen Ginsberg
Time
Thinking
Think
" I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. "
P. J. Harvey
Work
World
Words
" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "
Derek Walcott
Beautiful
People
Poetry
" Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. "
Plutarch
Speaks
Silent
Painting
" You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. "
Joseph Joubert
You
Will
Bring
" 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
" I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. "
Mark Strand
Limits
Believe
Poetry
" I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Life
Spent
" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "
W. H. Auden
Poetry
Music
Think
" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "
Jim Harrison
Keep
Alive
Write
" The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision. "
Edward Hirsch
Experience
Simple
Reading
" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Best
Moments
Poetry
" A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. "
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Time
Only
Most