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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.
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Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.
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When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.
- Direction
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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
- Looking
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I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.
- Own
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Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
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Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
- Mystery
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
- Face
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Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.
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