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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.Collection: Poetry
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.Collection: Poetry
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.Collection: Poetry
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.Collection: Poetry
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.Collection: Poetry
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.Collection: Poetry
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.Collection: Poetry
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.Collection: Poetry
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.Collection: Poetry
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.Collection: Poetry
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.Collection: Poetry
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.Collection: Poetry
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.Collection: Poetry
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.Collection: Poetry
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.Collection: Poetry
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.Collection: Poetry
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Poetry
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.Collection: Poetry
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.Collection: Poetry
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.Collection: Poetry
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.Collection: Poetry
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.Collection: Poetry
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.Collection: Poetry
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.Collection: Poetry
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.Collection: Poetry
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.Collection: Poetry
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.Collection: Poetry
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.Collection: Poetry
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.Collection: Poetry
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.Collection: Poetry
Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.Collection: Poetry
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.Collection: Poetry
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.Collection: Poetry
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.Collection: Poetry
I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.Collection: Poetry
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.Collection: Poetry
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.Collection: Poetry
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.Collection: Poetry
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'Collection: Poetry
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.Collection: Poetry
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.Collection: Poetry
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.Collection: Poetry
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.Collection: Poetry
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.Collection: Poetry
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.Collection: Poetry
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Poetry
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.Collection: Poetry
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.Collection: Poetry