“The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.”
— Mark Knopfler
Author: Mark Knopfler
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I still read Donne, particularly his love
“I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.”
— Carol Ann Duffy
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
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The cliche is dead poetry.
“The cliche is dead poetry.”
— Gerald Brenan
Author: Gerald Brenan
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I was always interested in French poetry
“I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.”
— Paul Auster
Author: Paul Auster
Category: poetry
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The idea of avant-garde art is a
“The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.”
— Robert Morgan
Author: Robert Morgan
Category: poetry
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I see architecture not as Gropius did,
“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.”
— Michael Graves
Author: Michael Graves
Category: poetry
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I did not have a very literary
“I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.”
— Robert Morgan
Author: Robert Morgan
Category: poetry
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In my late teenage years, I developed
“In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.”
— Danielle Steel
Author: Danielle Steel
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I was always making up rhymes. But
“I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.”
— Saul Williams
Author: Saul Williams
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When truth has no burning, then it
“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
— Muhammad Iqbal
Author: Muhammad Iqbal
Category: poetry
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And yet, in a culture like ours,
“And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.”
— Mark Strand
Author: Mark Strand
Category: poetry
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