“Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.”
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“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.”
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
“Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.”
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”
“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”
“When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.”
“I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.”
“This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?”
“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.”
“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.”
“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”
“Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.”
“I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.”
“The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.”
“As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.”
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
“I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.”
“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”
“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.”