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Poetry Quotes

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

Poetry People Me Doing Band Out

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Natasha Trethewey

Poetry Happy People Care Doing Been

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

Poetry Me Dark More Exploring Seem

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

Poetry Never Songwriting Always

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Good Poetry Political Little Seems

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

Carol Ann Duffy

Good Women Poetry Win More Equal

When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would become a rapper. I was born in a very traditional and religious family. Being a female was destroying my dreams. Slowly, first through poetry and then music, I began to find ways to share my thoughts and feelings, talk to my family and to the world.

Sonita Alizadeh

Family Dreams Music Girl Day Poetry

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska

Life Poetry Speak More Over Point

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Time Man Poetry Sorry Magic You

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Poetry Looking Things Because Our

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Johann Georg Hamann

Poetry Race Human Human Race

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Art Poetry Some Very Least Possess

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

Creative School Poetry College Look

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Caroline Kennedy

God Sad Poetry Losing Child You

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Poetry Writing Environment Talk Own

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset

Poetry Three Memorable True Content

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

Time Poetry Wine Wish You Drunk

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Life Attitude Great Poetry Said

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

Nature Poetry Tools Unique Own Form

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

Poetry Me American Human Relentless

To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.

Poetry Me Dead Confederate Different

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Relationship Power Poetry Language

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

Poetry Think Language Three Never

I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.

William Jay Smith

Children Great Childhood Poetry Poet

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