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" You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. "
Willem Dafoe
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" It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. "
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" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "
Luis Alberto Urrea
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" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "
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" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "
H. P. Lovecraft
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" My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. "
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" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "
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" A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. "
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" I've written poetry most of my life. "
Julia Michaels
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" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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" There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. "
Robert Graves
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" Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. "
Claire Tomalin
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" Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. "
Natalie Merchant
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" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "
Terrance Hayes
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" 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
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" 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
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" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
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" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "
Maya Angelou
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" Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. "
James Martineau
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" I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some. "
Anya Taylor-Joy
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" As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. "
N. Scott Momaday
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" In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. "
Danielle Steel
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" I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work. "
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" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "
David Whyte
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" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "
Sylvia Plath
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" I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. "
Norman MacCaig
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" If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. "
Muriel Rukeyser
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" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "
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" Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. "
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