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Poetry Quotes

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

Life Time Poetry Me Growing Up Head

You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.

Poetry People Writing You Know Say

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Time Poetry Feelings More Little Us

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Mother Confidence Poetry Reading Owe

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Learning Heart Poetry Literature

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

Nell Freudenberger

Poetry Me Book Someone New Poet

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Poetry More Rat Define Than Could

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so this is their one shot. They'll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

Poetry American Want Teach High

The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.

Experience Poetry Language Powerful

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Art Poetry Animals Who Modest Most

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Change Change The World Poetry World

I often say poetry was my first love.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Love Poetry Say First First Love

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

Love Words Poetry People Painting

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.

Margo Jefferson

Love Music Poetry Song Reading You

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Change Today Poetry Friends Person

The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.

History Time Poetry Long Long Time

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Music Time Together Poetry Writing

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

Poetry Magic Just Because Kind Mean

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Work Sleep Poetry World Start Name

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Love Music Fun Poetry Rest Year

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

Time Myself Poetry Think Language

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Lawrence Summers

Politics Poetry Dawn Sometimes True

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Edgar Allan Poe

Passion Purpose Poetry Me Been

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Challenge Together Words Poetry Go

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