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Patti Smith on poetry
Author: Patti Smith“What I wanted to do in rock ‘n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.” -Patti Smith
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Lewis Thomas on poetry
Author: Lewis Thomas“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.” -Lewis Thomas
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Stephen Sondheim on poetry
Author: Stephen Sondheim“One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.” -Stephen Sondheim
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Edward Koch on poetry
Author: Edward Koch“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.” -Edward Koch
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Amy Winehouse on poetry
Author: Amy Winehouse“I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.” -Amy Winehouse
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Sherman Alexie on poetry
Author: Sherman Alexie“You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don’t realize it.” -Sherman Alexie
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John Cusack on poetry
Author: John Cusack“It’s something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else’s poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you’re too awkward to do it.” -John Cusack
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Lena Dunham on poetry
Author: Lena Dunham“You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there’s a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there’s so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.” -Lena Dunham
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Julio Cortazar on poetry
Author: Julio Cortazar“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.” -Julio Cortazar
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Russell Baker on poetry
Author: Russell Baker“Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.” -Russell Baker
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J. Michael Straczynski on poetry
Author: J. Michael Straczynski“I’ve written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.” -J. Michael Straczynski
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Joni Mitchell on poetry
Author: Joni Mitchell“I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.” -Joni Mitchell
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Erik Satie on poetry
Author: Erik Satie“The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.” -Erik Satie
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George William Curtis on poetry
Author: George William Curtis“Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.” -George William Curtis
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Federico Fellini on poetry
Author: Federico Fellini“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.” -Federico Fellini
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Jorge Luis Borges on poetry
Author: Jorge Luis Borges“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.” -Jorge Luis Borges
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Anna Quindlen on poetry
Author: Anna Quindlen“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.” -Anna Quindlen
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Amanda Seyfried on poetry
Author: Amanda Seyfried“I have written some songs, but I would really call what I’ve done poetry at the end of the day, because I’ll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won’t touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what?…
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Elizabeth Edwards on poetry
Author: Elizabeth Edwards“I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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Margaret Walker on poetry
Author: Margaret Walker“The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.” -Margaret Walker
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David Duchovny on poetry
Author: David Duchovny“Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn’t call myself a poet.” -David Duchovny
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James Buchan on poetry
Author: James Buchan“Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.” -James Buchan
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Horace Walpole on poetry
Author: Horace Walpole“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.” -Horace Walpole
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Muhammad Iqbal on poetry
Author: Muhammad Iqbal“Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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Don Marquis on poetry
Author: Don Marquis“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.” -Don Marquis