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" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "
Marv Levy
Reading
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Me
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" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. "
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" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "
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" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "
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" 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
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" I read poetry to save time. "
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" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "
Seamus Heaney
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" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "
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" This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? "
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" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
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You
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" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "
Robin Coste Lewis
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" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "
Alice McDermott
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" One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. "
Clint Smith
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" I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. "
Jesmyn Ward
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World
Reading
" It's not easy to define poetry. "
Bob Dylan
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Easy
" Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. "
Billy Collins
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Voice
Visual
" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "
Oscar Wilde
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Survive
Poetry
" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "
Sebastian Lelio
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Poetry
" All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
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People
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" One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. "
Stephen Sondheim
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Page
" I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. "
Philippe Petit
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" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "
Paloma Elsesser
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Poetry
Writing
" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
John Ruskin
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Soul
Religion
" As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it. "
Marv Levy
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You
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" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
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" I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. "
Leonard Cohen
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Oscar Wilde
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Feeling
" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "
Tony Harrison
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" Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. "
Andrew Motion
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" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "
John Barton
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" And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. "
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