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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
- Executed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
- Composing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is composing for the breath.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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- Nov 07, 2020