“My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.”
— Philip Levine
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For me, poetry is a situation –
“For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.”
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and
“Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.”
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins
Category: poetry
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Probably all the attention to poetry results
“Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.”
— A. R. Ammons
Author: A. R. Ammons
Category: poetry
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Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of
“Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.”
— Helen Dunmore
Author: Helen Dunmore
Category: poetry
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The crown of literature is poetry.
“The crown of literature is poetry.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Category: poetry
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There is an urgent need for Americans
“There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.”
— Phil Ochs
Author: Phil Ochs
Category: poetry
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I think poetry can help children deal
“I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.”
— Carol Ann Duffy
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
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So it is in poetry. All we
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.”
— John Drinkwater
Author: John Drinkwater
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American poetry, like American painting, is always
“American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.”
— Diane Wakoski
Author: Diane Wakoski
Category: poetry
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The young people have MTV and rock
“The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.”
— Robert Morgan
Author: Robert Morgan
Category: poetry
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