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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry Quotes
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- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment of change is the only poem.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020