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Vanessa Redgrave on poetry
Author: Vanessa Redgrave“Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.” -Vanessa Redgrave
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Czeslaw Milosz on poetry
Author: Czeslaw Milosz“What is poetry which does not save nations or people?” -Czeslaw Milosz
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John Ashbery on poetry
Author: John Ashbery“I don’t look on poetry as closed works. I feel they’re going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.” -John Ashbery
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Anthony Hecht on poetry
Author: Anthony Hecht“There’s not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.” -Anthony Hecht
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James Martineau on poetry
Author: James Martineau“Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.” -James Martineau
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Stevie Smith on poetry
Author: Stevie Smith“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
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Marcus Mumford on poetry
Author: Marcus Mumford“I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.” -Marcus Mumford
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J. Carter Brown on poetry
Author: J. Carter Brown“I found that it wasn’t so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they’re kindred spirits.” -J. Carter Brown
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Dylan Walsh on poetry
Author: Dylan Walsh“My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.” -Dylan Walsh
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Giorgos Seferis on poetry
Author: Giorgos Seferis“For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.” -Giorgos Seferis
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John Betjeman on poetry
Author: John Betjeman“Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life.” -John Betjeman
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Tristan Wilds on poetry
Author: Tristan Wilds“Well, I write a lot of poetry – that’s where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me – love, loss, heartbreak – all of that good stuff!” -Tristan Wilds
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Georges Braque on poetry
Author: Georges Braque“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.” -Georges Braque
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Norman O. Brown on poetry
Author: Norman O. Brown“Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.” -Norman O. Brown
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George Oppen on poetry
Author: George Oppen“The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.” -George Oppen
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Richard Hell on poetry
Author: Richard Hell“Poetry’s always dead, you know? You don’t realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.” -Richard Hell
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Juan Ramon Jimenez on poetry
Author: Juan Ramon Jimenez“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.” -Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Merritt Wever on poetry
Author: Merritt Wever“I used to joke that if acting didn’t work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.” -Merritt Wever
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Anthony Hope on poetry
Author: Anthony Hope“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.” -Anthony Hope
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Adrian Mitchell on poetry
Author: Adrian Mitchell“I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock’n roll.” -Adrian Mitchell
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Robert Penn Warren on poetry
Author: Robert Penn Warren“The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.” -Robert Penn Warren
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Christina Perri on poetry
Author: Christina Perri“I was kind of an outcast in school ’cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn’t know what to make of me.” -Christina Perri
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Robert Adamson on poetry
Author: Robert Adamson“There’s one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.” -Robert Adamson
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Misha Collins on poetry
Author: Misha Collins“Well, I like to write poetry. I’m a published poet.” -Misha Collins
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Michael Graves on poetry
Author: Michael Graves“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.” -Michael Graves