- Poet
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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.
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is the deification of reality.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020