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Poetry Quotes

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry People Obscure Modern Being

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.

Poetry Book Down First Adult Well

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

Nature Poetry Growing Cotton Force

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

Poetry Perception Feelings Want Out

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

Women History Politics Poetry Law

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

Poetry Think Read Ever

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

I Am Poetry Foundation Better Feel

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.

Poetry Me Actually Chose

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

Love Poetry Me Think Doing Class

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Isaac Rosenberg

Life Myself Poetry New Strange Will

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

Amanda Seyfried

Confidence Time Day Poetry End You

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

Silence Poetry Mind Loss Country

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

Myself Words Poetry Guitar You Fans

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Poetry Bad Feeling Genuine Springs

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Innovation Beautiful Poetry Me You

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry Political Personal Tell Going

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Poetry Limits Believe Language

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

Poetry American Literature Modern

With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.

Poetry Outside Breathing Scared Fans

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Art Poetry Wrong Kind Seriously

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

Best Poetry Magic Illusion Create

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding.

Natasha Trethewey

Alone Poetry People Celebrate Think

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

Love Poetry Book Thought Doing Odd

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

Good Heart Yourself Poetry Writing

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