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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love words; I love poetry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020