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Poetry Quotes

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Poetry Used Ireland Northern Ireland

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Poetry Writing Advice Doing You

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

Work Music Poetry Language Feel

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Poetry Easy Say Real Should

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Great Poetry Against About Thing

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Science Poetry Say See I See Only

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Poetry End You Wrong Lost One Word

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means.

Power Poetry Me Reading You Honey

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Nature Art Poetry Measure Emotion

I read a lot of nineteenth-century French poetry. And Irish poetry from the ninth century on.

Poetry Irish Century Read French

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry You Quit Seems Only After

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Great Yourself Poetry Deep You Back

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Christopher Koch

Age Poetry Step First Step Nothing

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Poetry Reality Only Ray Itself

Money is a kind of poetry.

Wallace Stevens

Money Poetry Kind

I started reading seriously after I was in college. I read comic books. I read every 'Power Man' and 'Iron Fist' that ever came out. I had a teacher introduce me to poetry, and that kind of woke me up.

Power Teacher Man Poetry College Me

I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.

Heart Myself Poetry World Think

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Music Poetry Thought Enough Mission

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry Go Why Away Go Away Made

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Poetry Famous Values Same Reflect

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Christina Perri

Time Myself School Poetry Brother

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

Success Money Poetry People Writing

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Love Poetry Writing Write Poet He

Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer.

Woman Poetry Game Done She Pretty

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