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Poetry Quotes

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

History Poetry More Universal Only

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Eugenio Montale

Live School Poetry Books Does

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life Daily Daily Life Poetry Blame

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

Life Music Day Together Poetry Poet

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

Day Poetry College Writing Hair Hot

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

James Broughton

Spiritual Poetry Practice Me Much

It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.

Romantic Imagination Religion Poetry

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham

Work Poetry Dinner Night Walking

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Words Poetry Canvas Just Like Were

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Eugenio Montale

Great Soul Poetry Die Will Human

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

Paloma Elsesser

School Poetry Writing Literature

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

Poetry Mom Short Musically Poet

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry World Reality Nothing Modern

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Poetry Me Up Been Enlightened

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

Earl Sweatshirt

Good Music Poetry People Growing Up

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

John Singer Sargent

Talent Poetry Thought Certain Times

When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions - though there were not enough women - who were very much more influenced by, say, Asian forms or by Mantra or by thinking politically through their work in deeper ways really stuck with me.

Work Women Poetry Me Collaboration

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

Poetry Think Read Ever Really

I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

Sports Football School Poetry Black

You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

Live Heart Poetry Mind You Go

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Work Poetry Reason See I See Except

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

Isaac Rosenberg

Poetry Writing Despair Excellent

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

Girl School Poetry People World Try

Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.

Poetry Recognition Be True Ready Go

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