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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare

Poetry Prose Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Century

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. David Hare

Nature Key Poetry

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. David Hockney

You Poetry Well Craft Teach

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. David Lee Roth

Music Rap Poetry Beatnik Like Without

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her. David Lehman

I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard them as poetry, it would be bad, embarrassing, confessional poetry - a lot of the lyrics I love. David Longstreth

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A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others. David Mamet

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I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia. David Means

College Poetry Studied Columbia Did Ohio English

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. David Whyte

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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. David Whyte

Lyrical Poetry Practicality Which Fierce Aspect Whole Imaginative

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. David Whyte

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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. David Whyte

Great About Poetry Against Thing

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. Denis Villeneuve

Poetry Making Camera Essence

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write. Denzel Curry

School Poetry Write Just Used Elementary Elementary School

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. Derek Walcott

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. Derek Walcott

Big Think Poetry Readership Anywhere Really

There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature. Derek Walcott

There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. Derek Walcott

Time Critical Poetry Always Need

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral. Derek Walcott

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I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. Derek Walcott

Good Respect Poet Poetry Feel Like Celebrity Justifies

Where I come from, we sing poetry. Derek Walcott

Poetry Come Sing Where

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world. Derek Walcott

Love World Fate Fall Poetry

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