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Rick Springfield on poetry
Author: Rick Springfield“I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.” -Rick Springfield
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Mario Batali on poetry
Author: Mario Batali“When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.” -Mario Batali
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Bette Midler on poetry
Author: Bette Midler“Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it’s like a jackhammer.” -Bette Midler
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Jordin Sparks on poetry
Author: Jordin Sparks“I’ve written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn’t until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.” -Jordin Sparks
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Michael Sheen on poetry
Author: Michael Sheen“My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother’s into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.” -Michael Sheen
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Caroline Kennedy on poetry
Author: Caroline Kennedy“I never thought I’d be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading…
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Wallace Stevens on poetry
Author: Wallace Stevens“If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.” -Wallace Stevens
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko on poetry
Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.” -Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Joyce Carol Oates on poetry
Author: Joyce Carol Oates“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?” -Joyce Carol Oates
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Edward Young on poetry
Author: Edward Young“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” -Edward Young
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt on poetry
Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt“When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Daisaku Ikeda on poetry
Author: Daisaku Ikeda“Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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Aung San Suu Kyi on poetry
Author: Aung San Suu Kyi“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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Russell Simmons on poetry
Author: Russell Simmons“I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.” -Russell Simmons
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Thomas Mann on poetry
Author: Thomas Mann“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” -Thomas Mann
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Tom Hanks on poetry
Author: Tom Hanks“It’s always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It’s hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.” -Tom Hanks
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Nikki Giovanni on poetry
Author: Nikki Giovanni“Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together.” -Nikki Giovanni
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Jose Ortega y Gasset on poetry
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Fred Durst on poetry
Author: Fred Durst“You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.” -Fred Durst
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Jean Giraudoux on poetry
Author: Jean Giraudoux“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” -Jean Giraudoux
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Ellie Goulding on poetry
Author: Ellie Goulding“You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith’s autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.”…
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Erica Jong on poetry
Author: Erica Jong“I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that won’t pay the Bergdorf’s bill. I think I’ll move to somewhere life is cheaper.” -Erica Jong
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Ezra Pound on poetry
Author: Ezra Pound“Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber’s wax dummy is to sculpture.” -Ezra Pound
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John Ciardi on poetry
Author: John Ciardi“Poetry lies its way to the truth.” -John Ciardi
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Roger Waters on poetry
Author: Roger Waters“I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he’s going to write poetry or songs.” -Roger Waters