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Poetry Quotes

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Culture Poetry Entertainment Offer

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Poetry Musicians Know Want Break

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

Love Man Poetry Language Body Young

I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well.

Alice McDermott

Life Music School Poetry New York

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

Today Poetry Criticism Artist New

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

Natasha Trethewey

Experience Poetry Me Speak Think

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.

Poetry Step Writing Trying Write

I read mostly poetry.

Poetry Read Mostly

I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid.

Time Poetry Book Guitar Kid Over

I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.

Community Poetry People College New

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

Music Heart Beautiful Poetry Unhappy

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Great Poetry Me Journalism Shy Muse

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

Music Poetry Me Why Him Ability

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute

Poetry People Write Poet Cannot Who

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.

Quality Poetry Writing Start Walking

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Poetry Season Grain Century

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.

Love Music Peace War Poetry Late

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Carol Ann Duffy

Prayer Poetry Very Similar

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

Work Time Soul Poetry New York Me

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Wislawa Szymborska

Talent Poetry Spirit Vacuum Poetic

Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry, short stories, and letters. Trump, in his own hand, writes 140-character tweets.

Poetry Short Letters Newspaper Hand

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Mahmoud Darwish

Good Poetry Inspiration Occupation

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art Personality Poetry Everything

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

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