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Poetry Quotes

The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.

Romantic Poetry Shape English Like

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.

Poetry People Unknown Manipulation

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

Poetry Democracy Key Always Piece

What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been an anchor and a force of stability and consolation throughout my life. I think that's good news.

Life Good Poetry Me Believe Think

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

Life Beauty Science Soul Poetry You

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

Poetry Book Think Back Only Front

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.

Poetry Memory Mind End Create Give

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

Father Poetry Me Writing Tell Would

I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

Jonathan Galassi

Poetry Think Line Like Read Breaks

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

Music Poetry Me Language Write Read

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Poetry Direction Acting Realistic

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

Trevor McDonald

Poetry Say Never Write Things Read

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Love Poetry Fiction Anything Get

I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod.

Technology Walk Poetry People Think

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

Great Man Poetry Better Great Man

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Drinkwater

Value Poetry Imperfect Word External

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Children Poetry Reach Stop Write

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.

Poetry Writing Song Connections Talk

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Poetry Career Vocation Calling

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Poetry Theatre House Write Opera TV

I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.

Poetry Story Think Short You Place

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverley Nichols

Marriage Poetry Book Chapter First

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Poetry Reading I Can Trouble Young

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Poetry Dancing Foot

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