850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols

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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” — W. H. Auden

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“My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.” — Guy Johnson

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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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“In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.” — Lawrence Summers

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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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“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.” — Salvatore Quasimodo

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“Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.” — John Barton

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“A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.” — Anne Stevenson

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“Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.” — Marilyn Hacker

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“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.” — Jean Cocteau

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“God is the perfect poet.” — Robert Browning

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“Love is the poetry of the senses.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” — Thomas Gray

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“We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.” — John Fowles

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“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.” — Philip Levine

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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” — Novalis

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“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.” — A. E. Housman

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“I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.” — Eminem

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“As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.” — Jhene Aiko

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“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.” — Lionel Trilling

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“Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” — Charles Simic

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“You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.” — Charles Olson

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“It's not easy to define poetry.” — Bob Dylan

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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” — Marianne Moore

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