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Poetry Quotes

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

Poetry You Band Buy Expect Used

I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.

Poetry Book Black Back Find Go

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

Love Passion Poetry Literature More

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater

Poetry Here Should Form Takes Verse

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

History Great Poetry Think Language

I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.

Poetry People Looking Chance Young

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

Life Poetry My Life Poet Spent

Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

Morning Light Fire Job War Poetry

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Art Soul Poetry Me Painting Eye

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

Bernardo Bertolucci

Poetry Me Reality Camera Create

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Poetry Need Mine Ourselves Express

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Music Heart Poetry Support Forward

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Women Men Poetry Happy Think Look

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?

James Fenimore Cooper

Life Truth Imagination Man Poetry

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Culture Poetry Language Play Call

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Childhood Poetry Grow Out Nasty Few

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Poetry Reach Understanding Able

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

Childhood Fun Poetry Happy Nothing

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

Honesty Poetry Movement Starting

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Good Poetry Me Saying Doing Meeting

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Music Poetry Making Them

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

Work Good Music Words Poetry Small

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Music Poetry Song One Word Cultures

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Words Poetry Thought Emotion Found

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