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Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they’ve forced me to focus on the structure of ideas. (On Poetry Quotes)
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her ‘Ode to an Expiring Frog,’ sir (On Poetry Quotes)
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil (On Poetry Quotes)
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did (On Poetry Quotes)
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did (On Poetry Quotes)
Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings (On Poetry Quotes)
Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass (On Poetry Quotes)
If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate (On Poetry Quotes)
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth (On Poetry Quotes)
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. (On Poetry Quotes)
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry (On Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is like fish: if it’s fresh, it’s good; if it’s stale, it’s bad; and if you’re not certain, try it on the cat. (On Poetry Quotes)
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters (On Poetry Quotes)
I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book. (On Poetry Quotes)
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it’s important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. (On Poetry Quotes)
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That’s why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. (On Poetry Quotes)
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything (On Poetry Quotes)
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it (On Poetry Quotes)
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk (On Poetry Quotes)
Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own (On Poetry Quotes)
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry (On Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships (On Poetry Quotes)
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel? (On Poetry Quotes)
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones (On Poetry Quotes)
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama (On Poetry Quotes)
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job (On Poetry Quotes)
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life (On Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions (On Poetry Quotes)
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm (On Poetry Quotes)
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it (On Poetry Quotes)
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