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Poetry Quotes

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

Eyes Poetry You Mouth Say More

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

Nature History Poetry Think Look

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Wisdom Children Poetry Mind Grace

My work should be seen as poetry.

Work Poetry Seen Should

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Poetry Grow Grow Up Up Order Where

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Best Words Poetry Wish Remember

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

Poetry People Care You Want Prove

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Robert Penn Warren

Life Light Man Poetry End See

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

Poetry Door Dangerous Write Bedroom

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Day Poetry Ship You Office Mark

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Job Poetry Economics Say Want Why

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

Music Words Poetry Doing You Want

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Heart Poetry Learn Now Students

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Heart Poetry Learn You Know Take

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

Poetry Practice Feel First Poet

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

Poetry Surprise You Create Jazz Try

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

Courage Great Poetry World Friends

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Giorgos Seferis

Heart Men Poetry Small Domain Large

Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

W. Bruce Cameron

Leader Poetry People Society Tough

'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible.

Myself Poetry Me Saying Language

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Alone Poetry World Said Him Moved

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

Poetry Touch Simply Kept

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

Poetry Stand Elegance Short Own

Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Food Poetry Wine Bottled

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