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Walter Savage Landor on poetry
Author: Walter Savage Landor“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.” -Walter Savage Landor
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Tahar Ben Jelloun on poetry
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun“Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Ben Okri on poetry
Author: Ben Okri“I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.” -Ben Okri
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Taylor Momsen on poetry
Author: Taylor Momsen“I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.” -Taylor Momsen
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David Lee Roth on poetry
Author: David Lee Roth“Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.” -David Lee Roth
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Rupert Everett on poetry
Author: Rupert Everett“I’m not a great poetry fan.” -Rupert Everett
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Thomas B. Macaulay on poetry
Author: Thomas B. Macaulay“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.” -Thomas B. Macaulay
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Lascelles Abercrombie on poetry
Author: Lascelles Abercrombie“Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.” -Lascelles Abercrombie
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Adrienne Rich on poetry
Author: Adrienne Rich“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.” -Adrienne Rich
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Rita Dove on poetry
Author: Rita Dove“The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I’ve seen ecstasy or something.” -Rita Dove
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Edith Sitwell on poetry
Author: Edith Sitwell“Poetry is the deification of reality.” -Edith Sitwell
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Antonin Artaud on poetry
Author: Antonin Artaud“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.” -Antonin Artaud
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Joseph Brodsky on poetry
Author: Joseph Brodsky“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.” -Joseph Brodsky
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Jane Campion on poetry
Author: Jane Campion“And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it’s just been so worth the effort. It’s like I’m planting a garden in my head.” -Jane Campion
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Manuel Puig on poetry
Author: Manuel Puig“I like the beauty of Faulkner’s poetry. But I don’t like his themes, not at all.” -Manuel Puig
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James Gates Percival on poetry
Author: James Gates Percival“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.” -James Gates Percival
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Beverley Nichols on poetry
Author: Beverley Nichols“Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” -Beverley Nichols
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Brooks Atkinson on poetry
Author: Brooks Atkinson“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.” -Brooks Atkinson
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Danielle Steel on poetry
Author: Danielle Steel“In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.” -Danielle Steel
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Raymond Chandler on poetry
Author: Raymond Chandler“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.” -Raymond Chandler
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Guy Johnson on poetry
Author: Guy Johnson“My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.” -Guy Johnson
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Howard Nemerov on poetry
Author: Howard Nemerov“I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.” -Howard Nemerov
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Karen Armstrong on poetry
Author: Karen Armstrong“A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.” -Karen Armstrong
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Elia Kazan on poetry
Author: Elia Kazan“Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.” -Elia Kazan