Poetry Quotes

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I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new ba

I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

William Shakespeare

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely defin

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; --poetry = the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which c

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry woul

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Ch

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

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I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I wan

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

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It takes most men five years to recover from a college educa

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the

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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

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This career essentially chased me down while I was on the sp

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

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Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

Philip Massinger

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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of dis

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'l

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Salvatore Quasimodo

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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

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The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and

The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

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