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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.
- Nov 07, 2020
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
- Complexities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
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- Nov 07, 2020