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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote poetry off and on in high school, when I could manage to get out of gym classes and sports - using my allergies as an excuse - and climb the hill behind school till I found a nice place to settle down with a notebook and look at Spokane spread out below.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
- People
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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.
- Nov 07, 2020
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
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- Nov 07, 2020