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Tobias Wolff on poetry
Author: Tobias Wolff“I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.” -Tobias Wolff
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Ken Jennings on poetry
Author: Ken Jennings“You watch an old ‘Jeopardy!’ and the categories alone are very plain. ‘Poetry,’ or ‘Movies,’ or ‘Physics.’ If you watch it now, though, there’ll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.” -Ken Jennings
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Kenneth Koch on poetry
Author: Kenneth Koch“I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it’s not.” -Kenneth Koch
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Paul Dirac on poetry
Author: Paul Dirac“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.” -Paul Dirac
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A. E. Housman on poetry
Author: A. E. Housman“If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.” -A. E. Housman
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Asghar Farhadi on poetry
Author: Asghar Farhadi“Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.” -Asghar Farhadi
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Ishmael Reed on poetry
Author: Ishmael Reed“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.” -Ishmael Reed
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Thurston Moore on poetry
Author: Thurston Moore“Most people can’t tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can’t be related to other forms of historical poetry.” -Thurston Moore
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Shelby Foote on poetry
Author: Shelby Foote“I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.” -Shelby Foote
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Justin Townes Earle on poetry
Author: Justin Townes Earle“I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn’t have to have 20 verses to get your point across.” -Justin Townes Earle
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Helen Dunmore on poetry
Author: Helen Dunmore“Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.” -Helen Dunmore
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George Murray on poetry
Author: George Murray“Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.” -George Murray
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Harry Mathews on poetry
Author: Harry Mathews“My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I’m not kidding.” -Harry Mathews
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Marianne Moore on poetry
Author: Marianne Moore“I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.” -Marianne Moore
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Tom Glazer on poetry
Author: Tom Glazer“I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I’m glad that I did it.” -Tom Glazer
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Diane Wakoski on poetry
Author: Diane Wakoski“I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet’s language at that point in history, and so it’s even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.” -Diane Wakoski
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Mark Strand on poetry
Author: Mark Strand“A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.” -Mark Strand
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Julianna Baggott on poetry
Author: Julianna Baggott“And I know I’m supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books… and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can’t quite muster the guilt anymore.” -Julianna Baggott
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Thom Gunn on poetry
Author: Thom Gunn“There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.” -Thom Gunn
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Rickie Lee Jones on poetry
Author: Rickie Lee Jones“I think poetry is best read to oneself.” -Rickie Lee Jones
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Ed Westwick on poetry
Author: Ed Westwick“I’ve been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.” -Ed Westwick
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Teresa Palmer on poetry
Author: Teresa Palmer“The nerds are my favourite sort of boys – any guy with a passion – whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it’s super sweet and it’s very attractive for a female.” -Teresa Palmer
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William C. Bryant on poetry
Author: William C. Bryant“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.” -William C. Bryant
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Allen Tate on poetry
Author: Allen Tate“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.” -Allen Tate
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Raoul Vaneigem on poetry
Author: Raoul Vaneigem“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.” -Raoul Vaneigem