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Poetry Quotes

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power Picture Quote #1

There’s not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library Picture Quote #1

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential Picture Quote #1

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know Picture Quote #1

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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we’re not getting those things from our communities or from each other Picture Quote #1

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry Picture Quote #1

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images Picture Quote #1

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry Picture Quote #1

While I’ve had a great distaste for what’s usually called song in modern poetry or for what’s usually called music, I really don’t think of speech as so far from song Picture Quote #1

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem Picture Quote #1

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something Picture Quote #1

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative Picture Quote #1

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others Picture Quote #1

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart Picture Quote #1

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It’s one of the great things poetry does Picture Quote #1

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have Picture Quote #1

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You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people Picture Quote #1

I don’t like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were Picture Quote #1

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men Picture Quote #1

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away Picture Quote #1

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten Picture Quote #1

Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing Picture Quote #1

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Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead Picture Quote #1

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it Picture Quote #1

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake Picture Quote #1

I never thought I’d be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas Picture Quote #1

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there Picture Quote #1

I think I’m a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I’m not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn’t work and why Picture Quote #1

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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power (Poetry Quotes) There’s not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library (Poetry Quotes) To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential (Poetry Quotes) Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life (Poetry Quotes) 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 (Poetry Quotes) True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know (Poetry Quotes) 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 Quotes) What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry (Poetry Quotes) When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images (Poetry Quotes) When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry (Poetry Quotes) While I’ve had a great distaste for what’s usually called song in modern poetry or for what’s usually called music, I really don’t think of speech as so far from song (Poetry Quotes) With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem (Poetry Quotes) Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something (Poetry Quotes) Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative (Poetry Quotes) Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others (Poetry Quotes) You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart (Poetry Quotes) You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It’s one of the great things poetry does (Poetry Quotes) Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have (Poetry Quotes) You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people (Poetry Quotes) I don’t like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were (Poetry Quotes) There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men (Poetry Quotes) The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away (Poetry Quotes) As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten (Poetry Quotes) Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing (Poetry Quotes) Had enough of my poetry yet? That’s why they pay me to fight demons instead (Poetry Quotes) The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it (Poetry Quotes) Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake (Poetry Quotes) I never thought I’d be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas (Poetry Quotes) Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there (Poetry Quotes) I think I’m a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I’m not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn’t work and why (Poetry Quotes)

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