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Poetry Quotes

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

Poetry Memory Things Many About

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Music Poetry Painting Race Human

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Music Art Mathematics Poetry Logic

Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.

Andrew Sean Greer

Time Job Poetry Me Writing Think

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.

Poetry Think You Look Alive Missing

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Poetry Always Against Sense Even

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

Poetry Happy Advocate

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

Poetry Writing Early Say Years Well

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

Love Beautiful Poetry People Learn

I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

Family Live Daily Poetry People

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women Great Poetry Need Own Essence

I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'

Andrea Riseborough

Poetry Me Think Know Actor Hard

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Poetry Impact You Understand Expect

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

Poetry Think Interesting Attention

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.

Benjamin Clementine

Music Time Poetry Thoughts Start

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Father Best Creativity Poetry Think

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Poetry Impossible Said Say Well

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Teacher Poetry Understand Old

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Poetry I Can Write Cannot Recite

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Robert Penn Warren

Poetry Enough You Write Annoying

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama.

Journey Poetry King Voice Three Her

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

Past Poetry Think Loss Now See

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Bird Poetry Like Frontiers Ignores

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Age Time Poetry Sex Lens Race

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