Poetry Quotes

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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

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If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

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I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

Amanda Seyfried

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the ech

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Wallace Stevens

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I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it w

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the tr

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

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There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and c

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.

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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Karen Armstrong

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I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music a

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to li

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

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So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first w

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music wit

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignora

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... t

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

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she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom sa

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and re

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

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