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Poetry Quotes

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

Poetry Write Always Out Pretty Poem

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Poetry People Reading Way More Beat

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Success Beauty Truth Heart Poetry

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry You Find Will Bring Some

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Jane Hirshfield

Yourself Poetry Luck Unexpected You

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

Daniel Radcliffe

Love Good Beauty Words Poetry Get

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

Love Good Poetry Me Loss You

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

Work Keep Going Poetry People Advice

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

Poetry Reading Think Uncomfortable

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Work Poetry Mind Creation Never

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories.

Together Poetry Small Reading Honor

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Poetry Born Despair Poem Novel

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

I Am Poetry Care Cinema Know Europe

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

Poetry Effort Me Think Worth Garden

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

Live Poetry Perfect House I Can Big

I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country that I haven't explored through writers' festivals or through the kind of campus visits that I do on a regular basis and engaging with people who may be readers of poetry and may not.

Poetry People Me Moving Curiosity

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

Passion Focus Walk Poetry You Need

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

Great Poetry Table Places Classroom

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

Experience Poetry Go Beyond Possible

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Poetry Language Will Spirit Out

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Poetry Waiting Rose Writing Book

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

Value Poetry People Me Cold Think

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.

Time Poetry Late Important Right Up

Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from physics to fish and wildlife management to human-rights advocacy.

Music Poetry Support Research World

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