Poetry Quotes

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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves

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

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But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Poetry

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Poetry

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Poetry

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows po

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very stro

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

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You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the go

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

Phyllis Gotlieb

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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experien

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

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Everything is poetry. It's just a matter of whether or not y

Everything is poetry. It's just a matter of whether or not you can see it.

Poetry

Creative forms is really where it's at for contemporary poet

Creative forms is really where it's at for contemporary poetry.

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Raymond Chandler

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America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. 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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a ra

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Alfred Edward Housman

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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of

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

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The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

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I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just ob

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

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