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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 always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
- Being Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.
- Nostalgia
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In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions.
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There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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- Nov 07, 2020