- Life
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.
- Christopher
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally useless to me personally, came into its own: it was a wonderful name for writing poetry round.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020