- Book Writing
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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
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Listens
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
- Nov 07, 2020
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020