“Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.”
— Karl Shapiro
Author: Karl Shapiro
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The poetry community here has been extraordinarily
“The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.”
— George Murray
Author: George Murray
Category: poetry
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Poetry is the one place where people
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”
— Allen Ginsberg
Author: Allen Ginsberg
Category: poetry
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Poetry is the opening and closing of
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”
— Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
Category: poetry
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Any long work in which poetry is
“Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.”
— John Drinkwater
Author: John Drinkwater
Category: poetry
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was
“The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.”
— David Hare
Author: David Hare
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I see no reason for calling my
“I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.”
— Marianne Moore
Author: Marianne Moore
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For awhile after you quit Keats all
“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Solitude is very important in my work
“Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
“Prose talks and poetry sings.”
— Franz Grillparzer
Author: Franz Grillparzer
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A public expectation, it has to be
“A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.”
— Seamus Heaney
Author: Seamus Heaney
Category: poetry
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