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" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "
Helen Thomas
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" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "
Taylor Momsen
Really
Enjoy
English
" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "
Vikram Seth
Sad
Think
Story
" 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
" President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand. "
Helen Thomas
" There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. "
Rupi Kaur
Woman
Poetry
Love
" All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. "
Helen Thomas
" 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
" I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core. "
Jessica Steen
Down
Me
Deep
" Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. "
Walter Scott
Wisdom
Grace
Children
" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "
James Broughton
Prose
Walks
Me
" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "
Wislawa Szymborska
Over
Poetry
Point
" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "
Sylvia Plath
Growing
Poetry
Great
" Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. "
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry
Like
Ignores
" I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through. "
Helen Thomas
" I see poetry as spiritual medicine. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Poetry
I See
Medicine
" If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. "
Rainer Maria Rilke
Daily Life
Life
Blame
" The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. "
James Broughton
Joy
Explosion
Poetry
" I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. "
Lorde
Mom
Poetry
Musically
" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "
T. S. Eliot
Up
Emotions
Feelings
" I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper. "
Jerry Spinelli
Short
Football
Game
" Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. "
Octavio Paz
Future
Poetry
Progress
" To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. "
Octavio Paz
Poem
Hear
Eyes
" Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Work
Mind
Never
" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "
Victor Hugo
Poetry
Development
Epic
" A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. "
Ivan Turgenev
Feel
Present
Fade
" I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world. "
Earl Sweatshirt
Good
Music
Poetry
" Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. "
Helen Thomas
" When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected. "
Helen Thomas
" I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die. "
Helen Thomas
" The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. "
Muriel Rukeyser
World
Modern
Nothing