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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard them as poetry, it would be bad, embarrassing, confessional poetry - a lot of the lyrics I love.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
- Exhilaration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
- Eighteenth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.
- Poem
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have time for language poetry anymore. I don't want to throw people off anymore.
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
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- Nov 07, 2020