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Poetry Quotes

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

Alone Poetry Questions You Physics

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

Love Mother Style Poetry Ideas

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

Science Poetry People Looking Giving

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Alfred de Vigny

Life Time Religion Poetry Philosophy

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

Food Man Poetry Go Healthy Without

Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in this age of Trump as President, alternative facts, falsehoods becoming truth at the send of a tweet, it's vital that spoken word poetry does its job helping to keep folks 'woke' and not numb or shut down.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Age Truth Job Beginning Poetry Down

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Change Past Poetry In The Past Used

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

Poetry Tyranny Will Population Make

I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to.

Music Poetry Think Going Sense Some

The moment of change is the only poem.

Change Moment Poetry Poem Only

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

Poetry People Book Feel Smell Like

I believe that poetry should communicate.

William Jay Smith

Poetry Believe I Believe Communicate

I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.

Poetry Friends Admit Ashamed Even

Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.

Lance Henriksen

Future Art Moving Forward Poetry

I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.

Achievement Poetry Me Language Write

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry You Find Will Bring Nowhere

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

Justin Townes Earle

Teacher Creative School Poetry Me

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

Daniel Radcliffe

Love Poetry Think Short Skill Write

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

Music Poetry First Rhythm Tapping

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

I Am Poetry Memory People Up Poet

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

Poetry People Saying Someone Meaning

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry Say Invention Been Epic Many

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.

Time School Poetry Long Summer Out

I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my poetry book. Then I started to publish more and more poetry because people would ask me to do readings or ask me submit something for their journal.

Poetry People Me Book Reading Said

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