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My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. George W. Romney

Words Wife Eloquence Earthly Has-Been Poetry Inspiration Empathy She Greatest Been

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. George William Curtis

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The cliche is dead poetry. Gerald Brenan

Poetry Dead Cliche

I'm a wizard at poetry. Ghostface Killah

Poetry Wizard

Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it. Gioconda Belli

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me. Grace Paley

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I'm really into poetry. Grace Potter

Poetry Really

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. Graham Joyce

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Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. Gunter Grass

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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. Gyorgy Ligeti

Wonderful Lyric Hungarian Poetry Literature

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. H. L. Mencken

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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. Hallie Ephron

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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. Hannah Kent

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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. Harry Mathews

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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. Hart Crane

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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock Ellis

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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. Helen Dunmore

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Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. Helen Vendler

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