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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
There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really into poetry.
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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.
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- Nov 07, 2020