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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
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.
- Beat
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very schooled in poetry, too. He'd studied the Beat poets, of course. I grew up in the British bohemian scene. Dylan grew up in the American bohemian scene. So I was very pleased to meet such a guy.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020