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Poetry Quotes

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

Time Poetry Attention You Say Twice

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

Culture Poetry Fashion Internet Film

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Wallace Stevens

Water Poetry People Listening Way

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

Music Poetry College English Word

Mostly, when I travel, I want to represent my own work well and let others know how I feel about poetry being an important part of life.

Life Work Travel Poetry Feel Know

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

Great Sacrifice Poetry People Bible

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Understand Some

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poetry Me Writing End Language Kind

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Christian Louboutin

Music Architecture Poetry Literature

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

George Matthew Adams

Beauty Sea Beautiful Water Poetry

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

Work Simple Poetry Saying Think End

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

Poetry Wilderness Earth Within Arts

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Poetry Think Question Second Taught

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Poetry Homecoming Sort

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Caitriona Balfe

Poetry Magic Seems Incredible

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

Good Past Creative Poetry Writing

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Comte de Lautreamont

Poetry Must Made

As far as I'm concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it's poetry, man. There's beauty in it.

George Pelecanos

Beauty Man Poetry Black Washington

I'm no longer religious, but the Bible fascinates me. Hardly anyone reads it anymore, but it's got everything: it's a book of poetry, it's a book of principle, it's a book of stories, and of myths and of epic tales, a book of histories and a book of fictions, of riddles, fables, parables and allegories.

Poetry Me Book Bible Everything Got

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

Poetry Me Reading First Started

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

Yourself Poetry Thought Guitar You

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Nicholson Baker

Poetry People Want Why Bother Read

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

Abbas Kiarostami

Time Poetry You Will Difficult Away

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Love Poetry Language Back Authority

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