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Poetry Quotes

I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.

Work Poetry Appreciate I Can Upset

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

Good Poetry World Rest Think Going

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Love Music Poetry Feel Excited Get

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.

Roger Rosenblatt

Life Eyes Poetry Cold Whatever Us

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Poetry Never Abandoned Poem Only

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Good Poetry Deep Language Help Way

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Karen Armstrong

Words Poetry Thoughts End Us Like

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

Melanie Lynskey

Poetry Write Reason Head Used Going

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Denis Villeneuve

Poetry Camera Essence Making

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry You True Geometry Everything

Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.

Life Hope Poetry Me Blessed Drive

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Poetry Literature You Early

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

Poetry Writing Trying Find Hand Way

Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness.

Poetry Reading Will Race See Just

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Poetry Enough Done Convince Must

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry Thoughts Strike Own Almost

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

Love Peace Poetry Victory Palm Been

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Business Truth Teacher Poetry Why

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

Music Poetry Voice Gender You More

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

Robin Coste Lewis

Poetry Know Close Means Very Sung

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

Poetry Award Judging Solidarity Your

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Music Age Poetry Youth Listening

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

Love Winter Simple Poetry Stand You

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Work I Am Poetry Saying Better More

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