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Maxwell Bodenheim on poetry
Author: Maxwell Bodenheim“Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.” -Maxwell Bodenheim
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James Laughlin on poetry
Author: James Laughlin“We don’t attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.” -James Laughlin
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Vicente Aleixandre on poetry
Author: Vicente Aleixandre“Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.” -Vicente Aleixandre
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Naveen Andrews on poetry
Author: Naveen Andrews“I’m not an academic, but I’ve always loved poetry since I’ve been small.” -Naveen Andrews
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Natalie Merchant on poetry
Author: Natalie Merchant“Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.” -Natalie Merchant
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Ian Hamilton Finlay on poetry
Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay“Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.” -Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Knut Hamsun on poetry
Author: Knut Hamsun“No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.” -Knut Hamsun
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Nathalie Sarraute on poetry
Author: Nathalie Sarraute“One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry.” -Nathalie Sarraute
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Rene Auberjonois on poetry
Author: Rene Auberjonois“At this point we’ve answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry… stuff that we like. It’s fun.” -Rene Auberjonois
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Louise Jameson on poetry
Author: Louise Jameson“I’m hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career – they are so fun and witty.” -Louise Jameson
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David Knopfler on poetry
Author: David Knopfler“I always liked the magic of poetry but now I’m just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they’ve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.” -David Knopfler
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Brian Harris on poetry
Author: Brian Harris“To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.” -Brian Harris
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Tea Obreht on poetry
Author: Tea Obreht“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what’s going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda’s poetry. I don’t actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don’t know why, but it…
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Mary Gordon on poetry
Author: Mary Gordon“It was actually a women’s writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.” -Mary Gordon
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Story Musgrave on poetry
Author: Story Musgrave“Poetry is its own medium it’s very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.” -Story Musgrave
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James Dickey on poetry
Author: James Dickey“I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.” -James Dickey
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Muriel Rukeyser on poetry
Author: Muriel Rukeyser“The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.” -Muriel Rukeyser
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Stephen Greenblatt on poetry
Author: Stephen Greenblatt“What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.” -Stephen Greenblatt
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Henry R. Luce on poetry
Author: Henry R. Luce“There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.” -Henry R. Luce
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Johann Georg Hamann on poetry
Author: Johann Georg Hamann“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.” -Johann Georg Hamann
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Maurice Saatchi on poetry
Author: Maurice Saatchi“Poetry can’t cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.” -Maurice Saatchi
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Compay Segundo on poetry
Author: Compay Segundo“Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.” -Compay Segundo
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Gordon Getty on poetry
Author: Gordon Getty“I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson’s poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.” -Gordon Getty
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Julie Taymor on poetry
Author: Julie Taymor“Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.” -Julie Taymor
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Michael Cunningham on poetry
Author: Michael Cunningham“On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it’s differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.” -Michael Cunningham