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" With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Man
Determination
Best
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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
" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "
Seamus Heaney
Chapter
History
Much
" I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. "
P. J. Harvey
Work
World
Words
" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "
Seamus Heaney
Beyond
Go
I Am
" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "
Stephen Spender
Beyond
Great
Go
" I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. "
Tom Wesselmann
Months
Deal
Got
" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "
David Duchovny
Call
Poetry
Well
" The moment of change is the only poem. "
Adrienne Rich
Only
Poetry
Moment
" When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry. "
Mary Szybist
Say
Poetry
Myself
" Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. "
Abbas Kiarostami
Always
Difficult
You
" 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 was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "
Rita Dove
Poetry
Time
Lens
" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "
Pablo Neruda
Born
Voice
River
" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "
Helen Thomas
" Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. "
Mattie Stepanek
Angry
Beautiful
Caring
" Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. "
Felix Dennis
Leaders
Tribal
Poetry
" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "
Flea
Art
Poetry
Music
" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Necessary
Poetry
Poet
" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "
Robert Frost
Poetry
Life
Taking
" Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Poetry
Intelligence
Science
" 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
" Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories. "
Jenny Zhang
Together
Honor
Reading
" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "
John Updike
Myself
Write
Say
" Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. "
Michael Leunig
Soul
Childhood
Dreams
" 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
" To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry. "
Lucy Larcom
Blue
Trees
Poetry
" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "
Taylor Momsen
Really
Enjoy
English
" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "
Robin Coste Lewis
Sung
Means
Poetry
" We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. "
William Butler Yeats
Poetry
Others
Out
" Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Place
Take