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" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "
Helen Dunmore
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Words
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" I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "
Erica Jong
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" Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. "
Mary Oliver
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Your
You
" I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. "
Kenny Loggins
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Done
Head
" If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. "
Simon Armitage
You
Start
Poetry
" I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head. "
Michel Houellebecq
You
Influence
Poetry
" Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. "
John McWhorter
Rap
Creative
Country
" Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. "
Amy Clampitt
Women
Who
Poetry
" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry
Paper
Alas
" I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. "
Natasha Trethewey
Think
Always
Faith
" I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. "
Sasha Grey
Writing
Me
Poetry
" Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. "
Ellen Hopkins
Would
Stories
Poetry
" Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. "
Johann Georg Hamann
Poetry
Race
Human
" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "
Elia Kazan
Acting
Realistic
Poetry
" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "
Tom Stoppard
Jew
Poetry
Said
" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "
James Joyce
Most
Against
Always
" In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. "
Norman MacCaig
Think
Doing
Me
" There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Song
Music
" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Changing
Help
" I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. "
Amanda Seyfried
Day
Time
Week
" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "
Helen Fisher
People
Poetry
Sitcoms
" 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. "
George Packer
War
Poetry
Goodbye
" A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. "
Ivan Turgenev
Feel
Present
Fade
" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "
William Hazlitt
Nature
Poetry
Language
" I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. "
Pink
Me
Poetry
Dark
" 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
" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "
Macklemore
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Reading
Way
" I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work. "
Derek Walcott
Upset
I Can
Appreciate
" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "
Billy Collins
You
Children
Hate
" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "
Rebecca Sugar
Time
Adventure
Fun
" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "
Ed Koch
Canvas
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People