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Mike Leigh on poetry
Author: Mike Leigh“The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it’s not all about characters, relationships and themes, it’s also about place and the poetry of place. It’s about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.” -Mike Leigh
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John Drinkwater on poetry
Author: John Drinkwater“We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.” -John Drinkwater
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Ryan Adams on poetry
Author: Ryan Adams“Music is my thing. It’s my thing it’s what I love. It’s what I do. It’s football to me it’s Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.” -Ryan Adams
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Keith Haring on poetry
Author: Keith Haring“I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.” -Keith Haring
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Lawrence Summers on poetry
Author: Lawrence Summers“In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.” -Lawrence Summers
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Paul Auster on poetry
Author: Paul Auster“I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.” -Paul Auster
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Ray Manzarek on poetry
Author: Ray Manzarek“I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can’t really think of anyone who’s done anything like it since.” -Ray Manzarek
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Juan Goytisolo on poetry
Author: Juan Goytisolo“In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.” -Juan Goytisolo
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Jack Bowman on poetry
Author: Jack Bowman“My art and poetry is very political now. Because you’ve got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.” -Jack Bowman
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A. R. Ammons on poetry
Author: A. R. Ammons“Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.” -A. R. Ammons
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Charles Olson on poetry
Author: Charles Olson“I don’t live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.” -Charles Olson
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Paul Muldoon on poetry
Author: Paul Muldoon“We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.” -Paul Muldoon
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Philip Levine on poetry
Author: Philip Levine“My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.” -Philip Levine
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Robert Fitzgerald on poetry
Author: Robert Fitzgerald“Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.” -Robert Fitzgerald
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Hamlin Garland on poetry
Author: Hamlin Garland“There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers’ wives.” -Hamlin Garland
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Gyorgy Ligeti on poetry
Author: Gyorgy Ligeti“There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.” -Gyorgy Ligeti
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David Amram on poetry
Author: David Amram“That is what I did with Jack, and that’s why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.” -David Amram
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Jack Prelutsky on poetry
Author: Jack Prelutsky“Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – it’s some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.” -Jack Prelutsky
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Archibald MacLeish on poetry
Author: Archibald MacLeish“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man’s life if he has the weight and cares about the words.” -Archibald MacLeish
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Anne Stevenson on poetry
Author: Anne Stevenson“Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.” -Anne Stevenson
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Janine Turner on poetry
Author: Janine Turner“I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.” -Janine Turner
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Aaron Neville on poetry
Author: Aaron Neville“So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I’d like to publish it someday.” -Aaron Neville
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Bobby McFerrin on poetry
Author: Bobby McFerrin“I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories.” -Bobby McFerrin
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Alfred de Vigny on poetry
Author: Alfred de Vigny“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.” -Alfred de Vigny
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Walter Mosley on poetry
Author: Walter Mosley“Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.” -Walter Mosley