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Poetry Quotes

I don’t know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion Picture Quote #1

I’d like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It’s been my private discipline Picture Quote #1

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet’s perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music Picture Quote #1

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language Picture Quote #1

The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many Picture Quote #1

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry Picture Quote #1

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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry Picture Quote #1

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write Picture Quote #1

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where Picture Quote #1

I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it’s not on your side or against you. It’s an invitation into the onward flow Picture Quote #1

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! Picture Quote #1

Poetry’s always dead, you know? You don’t realize how good poetry is until 15 years later Picture Quote #1

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As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry Picture Quote #1

It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal Picture Quote #1

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There’s far too much of it. And if they’re any good, they’ll go ahead anyways Picture Quote #1

He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme Picture Quote #1

There’s a good deal in Pound’s and Eliot’s poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound’s very deplorable, Eliot’s kind of deplorable Picture Quote #1

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation Picture Quote #1

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The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers Picture Quote #1

Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others Picture Quote #1

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clichÃƒÂ©, not from real life Picture Quote #1

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I’m at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything Picture Quote #1

I thought that I wasn’t an essayist because I just didn’t see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That’s why I joined the poetry program in grad school Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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This disease they call ‘rap’ - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry Picture Quote #1

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart Picture Quote #1

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then Picture Quote #1

The great events in our lives are physical. Childbirth. Sex. Combat. Death. Not poetry, or music, or the thoughts of great men will flash across the transom of our minds at the moment of dying. We will remember only the moments when we felt the fibers of our body sing. Bloodily. Messily. Ecstatically Picture Quote #1

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great literateur of his time Picture Quote #1

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don’t want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul Picture Quote #1

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I don’t know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion (Poetry Quotes) I’d like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It’s been my private discipline. (Poetry Quotes) The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet’s perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language. (Poetry Quotes) The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many. (Poetry Quotes) What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry. (Poetry Quotes) The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry (Poetry Quotes) It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write. (Poetry Quotes) Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where. (Poetry Quotes) I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it’s not on your side or against you. It’s an invitation into the onward flow. (Poetry Quotes) Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! (Poetry Quotes) Poetry’s always dead, you know? You don’t realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. (Poetry Quotes) As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry. (Poetry Quotes) It’s always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. (Poetry Quotes) People should be stopped from writing poetry. There’s far too much of it. And if they’re any good, they’ll go ahead anyways. (Poetry Quotes) He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme. (Poetry Quotes) There’s a good deal in Pound’s and Eliot’s poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound’s very deplorable, Eliot’s kind of deplorable. (Poetry Quotes) Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. (Poetry Quotes) The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers. (Poetry Quotes) Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others. (Poetry Quotes) No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clichÃƒÂ©, not from real life. (Poetry Quotes) I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I’m at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. (Poetry Quotes) I thought that I wasn’t an essayist because I just didn’t see myself in a lot of the essays that were popular at the time. That’s why I joined the poetry program in grad school. (Poetry Quotes) 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. (Poetry Quotes) This disease they call ‘rap’ - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry. (Poetry Quotes) In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. (Poetry Quotes) I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. (Poetry Quotes) The great events in our lives are physical. Childbirth. Sex. Combat. Death. Not poetry, or music, or the thoughts of great men will flash across the transom of our minds at the moment of dying. We will remember only the moments when we felt the fibers of our body sing. Bloodily. Messily. Ecstatically. (Poetry Quotes) Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great literateur of his time. (Poetry Quotes) The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don’t want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul. (Poetry Quotes)

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