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" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
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Away
Book
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" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Plato
Even
Poetry
" 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
Poetry
Song
" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "
Dylan Walsh
Father
Me
Name
" The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. "
Rita Dove
Me
Poetry
Seen
" A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. "
Douglas Dunn
Poetry
Impact
You
" Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. "
Mary Lambert
Job
Work
Strive
" I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. "
Margaret Atwood
Sound
Words
Me
" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "
Philippe Petit
Passion
Walk
Need
" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Advances
Almost
Civilization
" The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it. "
Rupi Kaur
Kind
Because
World
" 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
" Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. "
Archibald MacLeish
Words
Football
Life
" The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting. "
Edward Hirsch
Feelings
Poetry
Commitment
" I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. "
Kali Uchis
Myself
Writing
School
" 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
" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "
Carol Ann Duffy
Always
Win
Women
" 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
" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "
Norman MacCaig
Teach
You
Poetry
" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "
Mary Doria Russell
Poetry
Studying
City
" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "
Seamus Heaney
Threshold
More
Poetry
" I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. "
Sue Monk Kidd
Morning
Reading
Time
" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "
James Fenimore Cooper
Life
Imagination
Religion
" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "
Michael Eric Dyson
Brilliance
Hip-Hop
Poetry
" It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Behind
Monuments
Edgy
" 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
" A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others. "
David Mamet
Know
People
Good
" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "
Edgar Allan Poe
Passion
Been
Me
" Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. "
John McWhorter
Rap
Creative
Country
" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "
Edward Hirsch
Dream
Trying
Create
" The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. "
James Gates Percival
World
Music
Waves