850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.” — Karl Shapiro

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“If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.” — Roger McGough

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“Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.” — Isaac Rosenberg

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“Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.” — Tom Holt

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“No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.” — Thomas Harrison

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“And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.” — Hart Crane

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“Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.” — Anna Jameson

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“The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.” — Laura Riding

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“The cliche is dead poetry.” — Gerald Brenan

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“Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.” — Trevor McDonald

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“Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.” — J. Courtney Sullivan

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“Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!” — Frank Iero

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“Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.” — John Masefield

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“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.” — Denis Johnson

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“Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.” — John Betjeman

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“I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.” — Isaac Rosenberg

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“All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.” — Alfred Douglas

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“To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.” — Laura Riding

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“Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.” — Tomas Transtromer

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“Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.” — Roger McGough

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“Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.” — Rick Fox

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“Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.” — Maxine Hong Kingston

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“I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.” — Isaac Rosenberg

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“People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.” — Simon Armitage

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“Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.” — Bernie Taupin

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