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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
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.
- Nov 07, 2020
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020