“In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.”
— Juan Goytisolo
Author: Juan Goytisolo
Category: poetry
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“The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.”
— Robert Morgan
Author: Robert Morgan
Category: poetry
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“The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.”
— Robert Morgan
Author: Robert Morgan
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“I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.”
— Leonard Cohen
Author: Leonard Cohen
Category: poetry
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“I like poems that are little games.”
— Peter Davison
Author: Peter Davison
Category: poetry
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“I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.”
— Russell Simmons
Author: Russell Simmons
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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
— Khalil Gibran
Author: Khalil Gibran
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“Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.”
— Wilfred Owen
Author: Wilfred Owen
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“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
— Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
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“Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.”
— Carol Ann Duffy
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
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“But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.”
— John Drinkwater
Author: John Drinkwater
Category: poetry
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