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" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "
Naomi Klein
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" Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. "
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" Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? "
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" When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps. "
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" 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. "
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" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "
Joseph Roux
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" My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected. "
Naomi Klein
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" I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. "
Jamila Woods
Poetry
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Borrow
" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "
Nikki Giovanni
Friends
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" Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven. "
Derek Walcott
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Real
" I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. "
Amanda Seyfried
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Week
" There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
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Criticism
Great
" I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. "
Sharon Creech
Poetry
People
Me
" I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll. "
Patti Smith
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" What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up. "
Naomi Klein
Name
Build
Want
" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "
Neil Gaiman
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" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
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Me
Know
" I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. "
Randall Jarrell
Think
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Modern
" 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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Poetry
" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "
Sebastian Thrun
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Language
" I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. "
Edward Hirsch
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" I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. "
Hallie Ephron
Parents
Family
Think
" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "
Leonard Cohen
Evidence
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Well
" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. "
Paul Engle
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" I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences. "
Edward Hirsch
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Seriously
" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "
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" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "
Edward Hirsch
Feel
Poetry
Inspire
" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "
Octavio Paz
Question
Books
End
" I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park. "
Naomi Klein
Half
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Backyard
" Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
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" Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started. "
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