“I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.”
— Allen Ginsberg
Author: Allen Ginsberg
Category: poetry
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How does one happen to write a
“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.”
— Allen Tate
Author: Allen Tate
Category: poetry
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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry
“Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.”
— George Murray
Author: George Murray
Category: poetry
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Besides the actual reading in class of
“Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.”
— A. R. Ammons
Author: A. R. Ammons
Category: poetry
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: poetry
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I write poetry in order to live
“I write poetry in order to live more fully.”
— Judith Rodriguez
Author: Judith Rodriguez
Category: poetry
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints
“Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.”
— Eugenio Montale
Author: Eugenio Montale
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The blood jet is poetry and there
“The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.”
— Sylvia Plath
Author: Sylvia Plath
Category: poetry
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She was the Judy Garland of American
“She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.”
— James Dickey
Author: James Dickey
Category: poetry
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The reason can only be this: heroic
“The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.”
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Author: Lascelles Abercrombie
Category: poetry
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious
“Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: poetry
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