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Thomas Harrison on poetry
Author: Thomas Harrison“No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.” -Thomas Harrison
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Patrick White on poetry
Author: Patrick White“Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.” -Patrick White
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Gerald Brenan on poetry
Author: Gerald Brenan“The cliche is dead poetry.” -Gerald Brenan
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Randall Jarrell on poetry
Author: Randall Jarrell“I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry.” -Randall Jarrell
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Gerard Manley Hopkins on poetry
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.” -Gerard Manley Hopkins
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John C. Ransom on poetry
Author: John C. Ransom“And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.” -John C. Ransom
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine on poetry
Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don’t go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It’s always so.” -Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Simon Armitage on poetry
Author: Simon Armitage“If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.” -Simon Armitage
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Naomi Klein on poetry
Author: Naomi Klein“We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we’re not getting those things from our communities or from each other.” -Naomi Klein
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James Branch Cabell on poetry
Author: James Branch Cabell“Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.” -James Branch Cabell
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Gilbert Murray on poetry
Author: Gilbert Murray“The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.” -Gilbert Murray
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Chrisette Michele on poetry
Author: Chrisette Michele“I have epiphanies all the time, because I’m always thinking. I’m a thinker. I’m always writing poetry, I’m always coming to conclusions.” -Chrisette Michele
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Shayne Ward on poetry
Author: Shayne Ward“I love to write poetry.” -Shayne Ward
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Luke Treadaway on poetry
Author: Luke Treadaway“I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I’m yet to pen a script, but it is something that I’ve been telling myself I want to do.” -Luke Treadaway
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Robert Creeley on poetry
Author: Robert Creeley“That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.” -Robert Creeley
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Malcolm Wilson on poetry
Author: Malcolm Wilson“Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I’m not saying I’ve got the answers, just a of questions that I don’t hear other artists asking.” -Malcolm Wilson
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Stan Brakhage on poetry
Author: Stan Brakhage“Poetry is a totally different art than film.” -Stan Brakhage
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Anatole Broyard on poetry
Author: Anatole Broyard“Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.” -Anatole Broyard
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Martin C. Smith on poetry
Author: Martin C. Smith“I’ve got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.” -Martin C. Smith
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Graham Joyce on poetry
Author: Graham Joyce“The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism’s anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.” -Graham Joyce
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Jason Newsted on poetry
Author: Jason Newsted“It all has to do with art – writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry – things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.” -Jason Newsted
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Louis Kronenberger on poetry
Author: Louis Kronenberger“The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.” -Louis Kronenberger
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Archie Shepp on poetry
Author: Archie Shepp“In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.” -Archie Shepp
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Bruce Cockburn on poetry
Author: Bruce Cockburn“I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.” -Bruce Cockburn
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Samuel Prout on poetry
Author: Samuel Prout“Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.” -Samuel Prout