850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.” — Toi Derricotte

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“Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.” — Diane Glancy

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“He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.” — John Colville

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“I write poetry in order to live more fully.” — Judith Rodriguez

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“I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.” — Simon Armitage

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“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.” — Satyajit Ray

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“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.” — Terry Eagleton

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“The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.” — Robert Morgan

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“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.” — Raymond Chandler

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“The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.” — Thomas Hardy

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“A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.” — Chaim Potok

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“You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.” — Ken Jennings

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“It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.” — Jenny Holzer

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“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” — Audre Lorde

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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.” — Goldwin Smith

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“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.” — Michael Graves

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“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.” — Horace Walpole

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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.” — W. H. Auden

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“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.” — Edward Koch

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“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.” — Thomas Hardy

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“Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.” — Robert Morgan

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“The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.” — Robert Morgan

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“Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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