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" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "
Niels Bohr
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Facts
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" I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all. "
Caterina Fake
Competition
College
Lost
" Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. "
Bette Midler
Set
Rap
Poetry
" A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. "
Walter Pater
Important
Consciousness
Temper
" I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "
John Cage
Saying
Say
Am
" The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. "
Basil Bunting
Poetry
Moment
Explain
" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Drink
Poetry
Fountain
" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "
Alice Eve
Poetry
Literature
World
" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Mature
Immature
" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "
Francois Nars
Personality
Nature
Night
" Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. "
Ezra Pound
Art
Sculpture
Real
" There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. "
Bo Burnham
Blurred
Music
Mind
" Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! "
Roberto Benigni
Poetry
Sometimes
Talk
" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "
Maya Angelou
I Am
Work
Saying
" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "
Edward Hirsch
House
Without
Poetry
" I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet. "
Jenny Zhang
Summer
School
Poetry
" I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. "
Carol Ann Duffy
Still
Read
Poems
" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "
Eileen Myles
Perfect
Poetry
Live
" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "
James Fenton
Poetry
Say
Language
" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Hard
Anything
" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "
Bernardo Bertolucci
Camera
Poetry
Reality
" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "
W. S. Merwin
Poetry
Lost
End
" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
Poetry
Soul
Writing
" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "
Jean Cocteau
Always
Liar
Who
" I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. "
Russell Simmons
Want
Words
You
" I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. "
Maya Angelou
Myself
Brother
Time
" Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? "
Jay-Z
Yourself
Best
Man
" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "
Rita Dove
Poetry
Plan
Library
" 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
Work
Criticism
Great
" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Action
Poetry
Also
" It's not easy to define poetry. "
Bob Dylan
Poetry
Define
Easy