“I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.”
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“Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.”
“The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.”
“A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.”
“In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.”
“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
“In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.”
“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.”
“A lot happens by accident in poetry.”
“I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”
“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.”
“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.”
“As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.”
“I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.”
“And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.”
“Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.”
“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.”
“Poetry is the deification of reality.”
“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.”
“I'm not a great poetry fan.”
“By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.”
“If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.”