Poetry Quotes
203 Poetry quotes:
"Eloquence is the poetry of prose."
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"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."
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"Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry."
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"The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang."
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"There's a poetry to profanity,"
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"It's tough to make the distinction between poetry and well-written prose. Is James Joyce's Ulysses a poem or is the more prosaic poetry of Allen Ginsberg really prose?"
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"I had a huge crush on my friend's older sister and I wasn't able to tell her. Poetry was a way of writing how I felt with out saying it,"
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"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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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"And I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry."
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"We are pleased and excited by the enthusiastic response to the Poetry on Stage series. These lively productions have helped further the Foundation's goal to bring the best poetry before an ever-wider audience."
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"Over the last 75 years or so poetry seems to have gotten entrenched in academia. We want to bring it back into the mainstream."
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"I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican."
Poetry Quotes
British Poet Quotes
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"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded"
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"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
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"I don't think I knew what real poetry was till I read Keats a couple of years ago."
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"Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way."
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"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."
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"[She was] the Judy Garland of American poetry."
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"How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it?"
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