“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
— David Carradine
Author: David Carradine
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In politics, as in poetry, it is
“In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.”
— Lawrence Summers
Author: Lawrence Summers
Category: poetry
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So much of my poetry begins with
“So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.”
— Tracy K. Smith
Author: Tracy K. Smith
Category: poetry
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Such discussions help us very little to
“Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.”
— Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
Category: poetry
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I have to admit that I had
“I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.”
— Jane Campion
Author: Jane Campion
Category: poetry
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Even if you only want to write
“Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.”
— Walter Jon Williams
Author: Walter Jon Williams
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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play
“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.”
— Julio Cortazar
Author: Julio Cortazar
Category: poetry
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Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and
“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”
— Dennis Gabor
Author: Dennis Gabor
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I find a lot of poetry to
“I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.”
— Joni Mitchell
Author: Joni Mitchell
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The poetry of the earth is never
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: poetry
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One will never again look at a
“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”
— Paul Muldoon
Author: Paul Muldoon
Category: poetry
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