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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Poetry

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I th

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Poetry

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from t

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

Poetry

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the for

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

John Drinkwater

Poetry

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really st

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

Caroline Kennedy

Poetry

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Poetry

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've d

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

Poetry

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Benjamin Franklin

Poetry Blackbeard Hanging Pirates

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literat

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Cassandra Clare

Poetry Books Reading Literature Philosphy

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Poetry

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

Wisdom Life Poetry

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when w

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry Speech Mankind

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gu

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Billy Collins, "New York Times"

Poetry

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Sp

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

Poetry

Money is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe t

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Poetry

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Poetry

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

Poetry

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry i

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

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