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Ally Condie on poetry
Author: Ally Condie“One of the things I’ve always liked about my husband is he’s very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he’s very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy…
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David Hunt on poetry
Author: David Hunt“Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.” -David Hunt
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Flea on poetry
Author: Flea“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
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Robert Hass on poetry
Author: Robert Hass“I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.” -Robert Hass
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William Collins on poetry
Author: William Collins“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don’t call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.” -William Collins
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F. L. Lucas on poetry
Author: F. L. Lucas“Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.” -F. L. Lucas
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Laurie Lee on poetry
Author: Laurie Lee“What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.” -Laurie Lee
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Roger McGough on poetry
Author: Roger McGough“Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don’t have to tell anyone you’re doing it.” -Roger McGough
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Isaac Rosenberg on poetry
Author: Isaac Rosenberg“Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.” -Isaac Rosenberg
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Thomas Lynch on poetry
Author: Thomas Lynch“But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker’s background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.” -Thomas Lynch
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James Schuyler on poetry
Author: James Schuyler“Well, if this is poetry, I’m certainly never going to write any myself.” -James Schuyler
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Tom Holt on poetry
Author: Tom Holt“Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I’ve managed to grow out of.” -Tom Holt
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Anna Jameson on poetry
Author: Anna Jameson“Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords – philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.” -Anna Jameson
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Trevor McDonald on poetry
Author: Trevor McDonald“Poetry says the things that I can’t say. I read a lot, but I never write it.” -Trevor McDonald
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Tomas Transtromer on poetry
Author: Tomas Transtromer“Society’s dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies.” -Tomas Transtromer
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Laura Riding on poetry
Author: Laura Riding“Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.” -Laura Riding
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Hart Crane on poetry
Author: Hart Crane“And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I’ll be more contented working in an office than ever before.” -Hart Crane
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Jacques Maritain on poetry
Author: Jacques Maritain“Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.” -Jacques Maritain
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Karl Shapiro on poetry
Author: Karl Shapiro“Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.” -Karl Shapiro
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John Masefield on poetry
Author: John Masefield“Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.” -John Masefield
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Denis Johnson on poetry
Author: Denis Johnson“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
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Maxine Hong Kingston on poetry
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston“Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.” -Maxine Hong Kingston
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Ron Rash on poetry
Author: Ron Rash“Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I’ve learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel’s length, satisfies the reader.” -Ron Rash
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Frank Iero on poetry
Author: Frank Iero“Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That’s the thing I really want to break into!” -Frank Iero
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J. Courtney Sullivan on poetry
Author: J. Courtney Sullivan“Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.” -J. Courtney Sullivan