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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
- Coming Of Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020