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" A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope. "
Justin Cartwright
" A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. "
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
" A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand. "
Chloe Zhao
" After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry. "
Donald Hall
" After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry. "
Paul Heyse
" Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. "
Mahmoud Darwish
" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "
Jose Marti
" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "
Mark Strand
" 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. "
Lisa Bonet
" Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. "
Robert Morgan
" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "
Mark Strand
" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
Oscar Wilde
" All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. "
Lord Alfred Douglas
" 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
" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
" All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet. "
Stevie Smith
" All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. "
Edgar Allan Poe
" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
" All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. "
Denis Johnson
" All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. "
Norman MacCaig
" All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. "
Sophie Hannah
" All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
" A lot happens by accident in poetry. "
Howard Nemerov
" A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud. "
Tony Harrison
" A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done. "
Claudia Rankine
" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "
Brit Marling
" Always be a poet, even in prose. "
Charles Baudelaire
" A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. "
John Drinkwater
" A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. "
Lord Byron
" American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. "
Diane Wakoski
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