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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
- Real
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In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
- Prose
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
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My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
- Man
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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
- Life
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
- Reading
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
- Enough
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
- Children
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
- Green
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
- Honesty
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