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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a f

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Lucille Clifton

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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short s

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry a

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

J. Carter Brown

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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me thin

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

James Broughton

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

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

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It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's m

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be fou

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.

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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a ve

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, bu

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Isaac Rosenberg

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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that can

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I love to write poetry.

I love to write poetry.

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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn h

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

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And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

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