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Richard Serra on poetry
Author: Richard Serra“On the other hand, if there’s an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I’ve lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.” -Richard Serra
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Glen Hansard on poetry
Author: Glen Hansard“If you don’t mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there’s no poetry in that.” -Glen Hansard
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Saul Williams on poetry
Author: Saul Williams“I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It’s not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.” -Saul Williams
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Jenny Holzer on poetry
Author: Jenny Holzer“It’s necessary to start most work alone. But I’m tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it’s borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.” -Jenny Holzer
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Walter Jon Williams on poetry
Author: Walter Jon Williams“Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.” -Walter Jon Williams
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Trevor Dunn on poetry
Author: Trevor Dunn“I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.” -Trevor Dunn
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Carol Ann Duffy on poetry
Author: Carol Ann Duffy“You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.” -Carol Ann Duffy
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Marguerite Young on poetry
Author: Marguerite Young“I’m as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I’m much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.” -Marguerite Young
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Nicholson Baker on poetry
Author: Nicholson Baker“So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.” -Nicholson Baker
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Phil Ochs on poetry
Author: Phil Ochs“There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.” -Phil Ochs
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P. J. Harvey on poetry
Author: P. J. Harvey“I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and… I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.” -P. J. Harvey
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Jim Jarmusch on poetry
Author: Jim Jarmusch“If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you’ll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.” -Jim Jarmusch
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John Millington Synge on poetry
Author: John Millington Synge“It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.” -John Millington Synge
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Helen Thomas on poetry
Author: Helen Thomas“There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred – by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.” -Helen Thomas
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Shelby Lynne on poetry
Author: Shelby Lynne“I can find some way to make poetry out of my life’s experiences.” -Shelby Lynne
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Jeffery Deaver on poetry
Author: Jeffery Deaver“I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.” -Jeffery Deaver
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Matthew Arnold on poetry
Author: Matthew Arnold“Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.” -Matthew Arnold
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Robin Wright Penn on poetry
Author: Robin Wright Penn“It’s just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?” -Robin Wright Penn
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Mark Knopfler on poetry
Author: Mark Knopfler“The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.” -Mark Knopfler
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Jerry B. Jenkins on poetry
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins“Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.” -Jerry B. Jenkins
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Lisa Bonet on poetry
Author: Lisa Bonet“A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We’ve tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.” -Lisa Bonet
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Judy Collins on poetry
Author: Judy Collins“I don’t think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don’t come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.” -Judy Collins
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Ryszard Kapuscinski on poetry
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski“The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.” -Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Frederick William Robertson on poetry
Author: Frederick William Robertson“The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.” -Frederick William Robertson