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W. S. Merwin on poetry
Author: W. S. Merwin“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.” -W. S. Merwin
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Joshua Logan on poetry
Author: Joshua Logan“Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.” -Joshua Logan
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William Rose Benet on poetry
Author: William Rose Benet“Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.” -William Rose Benet
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Galway Kinnell on poetry
Author: Galway Kinnell“That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.” -Galway Kinnell
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Edward Dowden on poetry
Author: Edward Dowden“For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one’s own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.” -Edward Dowden
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J. G. Stedman on poetry
Author: J. G. Stedman“Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.” -J. G. Stedman
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Edmund Clarence Stedman on poetry
Author: Edmund Clarence Stedman“Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.” -Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Amy Clampitt on poetry
Author: Amy Clampitt“Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” -Amy Clampitt
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Lucille Clifton on poetry
Author: Lucille Clifton“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” -Lucille Clifton
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Paul Celan on poetry
Author: Paul Celan“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.” -Paul Celan
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John Andrew Holmes on poetry
Author: John Andrew Holmes“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.” -John Andrew Holmes
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Reynolds Price on poetry
Author: Reynolds Price“The older I’ve got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.” -Reynolds Price
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David Lehman on poetry
Author: David Lehman“Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.” -David Lehman
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Tracy K. Smith on poetry
Author: Tracy K. Smith“So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.” -Tracy K. Smith
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Comte de Lautreamont on poetry
Author: Comte de Lautreamont“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.” -Comte de Lautreamont
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Fernand Leger on poetry
Author: Fernand Leger“What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing.” -Fernand Leger
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Basil Bunting on poetry
Author: Basil Bunting“The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.” -Basil Bunting
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Stephen Spender on poetry
Author: Stephen Spender“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.” -Stephen Spender
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Rick Fox on poetry
Author: Rick Fox“Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.” -Rick Fox
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Jhene Aiko on poetry
Author: Jhene Aiko“As I got older, I really got into Tupac’s poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.” -Jhene Aiko
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Sonja Sohn on poetry
Author: Sonja Sohn“This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry – which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just…
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Phyllis Gotlieb on poetry
Author: Phyllis Gotlieb“You don’t go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.” -Phyllis Gotlieb
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Bernie Taupin on poetry
Author: Bernie Taupin“Don’t call my lyrics poetry. It’s an insult to real poets.” -Bernie Taupin
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John Denham on poetry
Author: John Denham“Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.” -John Denham
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Peter Porter on poetry
Author: Peter Porter“I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn’t read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.” -Peter Porter