“I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.”
— Sally Kirkland
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“I write all the time – I write poetry, I love to write.”
— Colin Quinn
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“A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.”
— Walter Pater
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“Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.”
— Compay Segundo
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“So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.”
— June Jordan
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“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”
— Lionel Trilling
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“Poetry must be made by all and not by one.”
— Comte de Lautreamont
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“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
— Federico Fellini
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“If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.”
— John Barton
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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
— W. H. Auden
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“Poetry is composing for the breath.”
— Peter Davison
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