- Children
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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.
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- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not easy to define poetry.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing dark poetry was always my escape.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
- Disoriented
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
- Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020