984 Poetry Quotes for You to Enjoy

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another. Elizabeth Strout

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Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. Ellen Hopkins

Would Would-Be Poetry Without Stories

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there. Ellen Hopkins

Wonderful Teen Out Would Would-Be Some Poetry Point Stuff Alongside Like Talk Readers Doing Anthology Get Really Fun Publisher

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality! Ellen Key

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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape. Ellie Goulding

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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. Eminem

Think Poetry Read Ever

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. Eminem

Think Poetry Read Really Ever

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. Erica Jong

You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish. Ethan Canin

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In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all. Eugene H. Peterson

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. Eugenio Montale

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound

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I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. F. Sionil Jose

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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. F. Sionil Jose

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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. F. Sionil Jose

Alike Admired Poetry Aristocrat Am Peasant

In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. Fanny Howe

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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry. Felix Dennis

Life My Life Poetry Absolutely Redeemed Am Convinced

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