- 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
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
- Guru
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- Nov 07, 2020
After watching Guru Dutt's films, I became a huge fan of Sahir Ludhianvi's poetry and the songs of Guru Dutt's films.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
- Missed
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020