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Poetry Quotes

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

Life Love Power Great Poetry Poor

I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

Love Music Soul Poetry College Long

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Beautiful Poetry Space Think Play

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Good Poetry People Good Things Going

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

Poetry American Say Personal Always

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

Love Poetry People Novels Sitcoms

There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.

Great Poetry City Camera Looks Way

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Poetry People Me Say Want See

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

David Josiah Brewer

Music Time Art Architecture Poetry

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Reflection Poetry End Question Begin

I'm not a partygoer.

Poetry Think Hard See Just Kids

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.

Life Father Mother Poetry Child Me

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

Purpose Poetry Speak America Clear

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

I Am Poetry Bridge Writing Present

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

School Poetry Newspaper Things Like

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

Alice McDermott

Prayer Poetry Language Church First

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Poetry You Teach Craft Well

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Natasha Trethewey

Poetry Easy New Nothing Nothing New

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

Poetry Me World Reading Language

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

Music Poetry Painting Mediocrity

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

Community Poetry Week Three Group

I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.

Time School Competition Poetry Start

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Childhood Poetry Me Connection Wrote

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Poetry Revolution Rebellion Raising

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