“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
— Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman
Category: poetry
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I have always written poetry but I
“I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.”
— Janine Turner
Author: Janine Turner
Category: poetry
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An experienced reader uses the poem as
“An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.”
— John Barton
Author: John Barton
Category: poetry
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The Language Poets are writing only about
“The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.”
— Robert Morgan
Author: Robert Morgan
Category: poetry
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At the age when Bengali youth almost
“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”
— Satyajit Ray
Author: Satyajit Ray
Category: poetry
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I would say that American poetry has
“I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.”
— Mark Strand
Author: Mark Strand
Category: poetry
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A poem in form still has to
“A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.”
— Robert Morgan
Author: Robert Morgan
Category: poetry
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I want to branch out. I want
“I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.”
— Annie Lennox
Author: Annie Lennox
Category: poetry
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”
— Plutarch
Author: Plutarch
Category: poetry
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it
“Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.”
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Author: Lascelles Abercrombie
Category: poetry
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it
“Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.”
— George William Curtis
Author: George William Curtis
Category: poetry
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