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Phyllis McGinley on poetry
Author: Phyllis McGinley“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.” -Phyllis McGinley
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Gaston Bachelard on poetry
Author: Gaston Bachelard“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.” -Gaston Bachelard
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Laura Marling on poetry
Author: Laura Marling“The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.” -Laura Marling
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David Antin on poetry
Author: David Antin“I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It’s hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.” -David Antin
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Abbas Kiarostami on poetry
Author: Abbas Kiarostami“Poetry always runs away from you – it’s very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.” -Abbas Kiarostami
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Marilyn Hacker on poetry
Author: Marilyn Hacker“Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.” -Marilyn Hacker
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Theodore Sturgeon on poetry
Author: Theodore Sturgeon“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.” -Theodore Sturgeon
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Steven Pinker on poetry
Author: Steven Pinker“Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.” -Steven Pinker
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Chaim Potok on poetry
Author: Chaim Potok“A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.” -Chaim Potok
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Martin Amis on poetry
Author: Martin Amis“The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it’s not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I’ve met, and think they’re incredibly witty, inventive – there’s a lot of poetry there.” -Martin Amis
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Andrew Bird on poetry
Author: Andrew Bird“I don’t write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.” -Andrew Bird
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Boris Pasternak on poetry
Author: Boris Pasternak“I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.” -Boris Pasternak
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Brit Marling on poetry
Author: Brit Marling“A lot of people think, ‘I’ll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn’t work out I’ll go get a law degree, do something else that’s more practical.’ For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.” -Brit Marling
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Callan McAuliffe on poetry
Author: Callan McAuliffe“I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it.” -Callan McAuliffe
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Candace Bushnell on poetry
Author: Candace Bushnell“I know I’m not a wordsmith. And I don’t write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it’s really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.” -Candace Bushnell
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Herschel Walker on poetry
Author: Herschel Walker“My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.” -Herschel Walker
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Will Cuppy on poetry
Author: Will Cuppy“I don’t like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.” -Will Cuppy
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Seamus Heaney on poetry
Author: Seamus Heaney“The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.” -Seamus Heaney
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Lafcadio Hearn on poetry
Author: Lafcadio Hearn“I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.” -Lafcadio Hearn
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Allen Ginsberg on poetry
Author: Allen Ginsberg“I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.” -Allen Ginsberg
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Kenny Loggins on poetry
Author: Kenny Loggins“I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one’s done it this way.” -Kenny Loggins
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Richard Eberhart on poetry
Author: Richard Eberhart“Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.” -Richard Eberhart
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Stephen Colbert on poetry
Author: Stephen Colbert“I wrote things for the school’s newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry.” -Stephen Colbert
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Emilio Estevez on poetry
Author: Emilio Estevez“I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.” -Emilio Estevez
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Norman MacCaig on poetry
Author: Norman MacCaig“When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can’t teach poetry. This is ridiculous.” -Norman MacCaig