“I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.”
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“I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.”
“I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.”
“Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.”
“It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.”
“Poetry and prayer are very similar.”
“Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.”
“I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.”
“You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.”
“I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.”
“More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.”
“I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.”
“If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.”
“On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.”
“I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.”
“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
“Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.”
“Prose talks and poetry sings.”
“And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.”
“Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”
“If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.”
“I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.”
“The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.”
“So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.”