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" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "
Jean Marais
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Always
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" 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
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Feelings
" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "
Marilynne Robinson
Poetry
Knowledge
Like
" Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. "
John Berger
Way
Become
Connection
" For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. "
Robert Pinsky
Value
Art
Love
" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "
Leonard Cohen
Group
Singing
Poetry
" I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering. "
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Say
" This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. "
Eugenio Montale
Die
Always
Great
" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "
Macklemore
More
Reading
Way
" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "
Norman MacCaig
Got
Nothing
Poetry
" I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. "
Charlie Sheen
Man
Magic
You
" 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
" I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some. "
Anya Taylor-Joy
Reading
Thought
Way
" I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. "
F. Sionil Jose
Peasant
Poetry
Am
" Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. "
Vladimir Nabokov
Rational
Poetry
Through
" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "
Carl Sandburg
Poetry
Shadow
Asking
" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "
David Duchovny
Call
Poetry
Well
" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "
Wallace Stevens
Words
Your
Love
" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "
Wallace Stevens
Woman
Way
Poetry
" Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. "
Francisco Goya
Together
Like
Nature
" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Head
Top
Poetry
" Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. "
Johann Georg Hamann
Poetry
Race
Human
" Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. "
Octavio Paz
Poetry
Morality
Manifest
" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "
Joseph Bruchac
American
Small
Words
" 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
" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "
Robert Frost
Poetry
Life
Taking
" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "
David Whyte
Interesting
Just
Poetry
" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "
Sylvia Plath
Poetry
Stopping
Jet
" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "
K'naan
Powerful
Poetry
Pure
" 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
" Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. "
Billy Collins
Someone
Meaning
People