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Poetry Quotes

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Jonathan Galassi

Fire Poetry Think Loved Always Pale

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

Work Poetry Criticism My Own Others

Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

Day Poetry Flying Language Finding

I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry.

Love Poetry People College Questions

I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.

Art Poetry Me Theatre World Artist

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

Love Death Poetry Happy Lost Stick

I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

School Poetry Me Writing High School

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

I Am Poetry Saying Loving Fools Two

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Poetry Waiting Rose Down Canyon

I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera.

Poetry Looking Strong Blind Camera

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Poetry Experiment Humour Own Poet

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

I Am Poetry First Poet Books Four

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Best Poetry You Harm Lot

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

Poetry Long Now Become More Poet

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.

Lakeith Stanfield

Poetry Mean Write Rap Beat Call

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

John Drinkwater

Life Experience Men Poetry Desire

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Poetry Painting American Personal

My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself.

Myself Poetry People World Done How

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Courage Poetry Face Feel You Try

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

Family Poetry Me Speak Try Need

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

Poetry People Mean Years Started

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Poetry Insult Real Call Lyrics

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Poetry Language Look Because English

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

Anger Poetry Energy Think Better

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