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" While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. "

David Antin

Far

Song

Poetry

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" Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. "

" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "

" Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. "

" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "

" 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. "

" I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. "

" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "

" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "

" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "

" I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. "

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

" More modern poetry is written than read. "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "

" Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem. "

" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "

" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "

" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "

" If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

Epic Poetry

Within

Fall

" The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. "

" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

Seamus Heaney

Last

Order

" When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. "

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "

" I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain. "

" A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "

" In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. "