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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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- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
- Filtered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020