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Poetry Quotes

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Life Poetry Find I Can Way Out

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Passion Poetry Sweet Writing Think

I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

Family Mother Poetry Parents Dinner

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry Thoughts Surprise Strike Own

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

Douglas Brinkley

Poetry American Pie Rock Way Real

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac

Love Love Is Poetry Senses

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Walter Jon Williams

Science History Poetry Literature

Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.

Robin Coste Lewis

Poetry Long Way Remembered Means

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Poetry Way Cannot Anglo-Saxon

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

Great Poetry Reading Become Thanks

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

Gary Shteyngart

Poetry People Think Will Become

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Art Words Poetry Happy World Person

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

Myself Man Baseball Poetry Support

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Poetry Political Things Happen Never

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Queen Poetry Charm Creator Supreme

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

Fishing Baseball Poetry Roses Easy

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Truth Poetry Ring Within Fact Lyric

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann, and with the friendly support of Emanuel Geibel and Franz Kugler, I dabbled in all sorts of poetry.

Poetry Support Two Years University

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

Life I Am Poetry My Life Absolutely

I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.

Work Poetry Book Calm Driving Place

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

Poetry Me Ahead Abandoned Seventies

Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.

Time Culture Poetry Book Criticism

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Sad Experience Poetry Story Think

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

Music Poetry Song Voice Short Long

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