- Guidance
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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
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
- Cover
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The techniques of contemporary poetry are probably the techniques of your daily life. I don't know a single person who goes into the grocery store and thinks in complete sentences. We often think in fragments, we think in little lists, we think in non-sequiturs, we think in feelings that may not match up with each other.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020