- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry Quotes
On verse, beauty, and the search to define art.
This set opens with the case for teaching children poetry early, since it broadens young minds and passes on virtue almost by inheritance, then weighs how differently prose and poetry can each carry weight. See Art quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to write poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
- Ring
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
- Northern Ireland
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- Nov 07, 2020