- Moment
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- 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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love romantic poetry.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all writers, regardless of genre, are challenged to do, but it is in children's that the art of selection really becomes an art.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, I'm not a singer or rapper. I'm an artiste. Besides singing, I produce music, dance, write poetry, and sometimes I paint as well.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Pastime
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- Nov 07, 2020