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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
Ken Jennings
Alone
You
Jokes
Physics
Old
Though
More
Poetry
Categories
Lots
Questions
Very
Hitchcock
Where
Board
Movies
Plain
Theme
Jeopardy
Now
Watch
Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.
Kenneth Branagh
Singing
Sense
Settings
Dancing
Musical
Constantly
Shakespeare
Poetry
He
Likes
Because
Where
Rhythmic
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
Kenneth Koch
Good
Political
Defined
Seems
Poetry
Very
Little
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.
Kenneth Koch
Love
War
Music
Peace
Painting
Late
About
Poetry
Know
Until
Read
Course
Been
Overwhelmed
Influenced
Fiction
Them
Much
Certainly
Nearly
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
Kenneth Koch
Me
People
Become
Painting
Other
Way
Thousands
Seems
Poetry
Write
Part
Were
Surrealist
Influenced
I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennessee Williams.
Kenny Leon
Background
Williams
Poetry
Writers
Tennessee
Tennessee Williams
Had
Liked
Always
Affinity
Who
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
Kevin Powers
Me
Writing
Own
Seem
My Own
Poetry
Prose
Importance
Equal
Reader
Difference
Much
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
Khaled Hosseini
Great
Poetry
Most
Tradition
Afghanistan
Form
Literature
Even
Even Now
Now
I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher.
Khalid
Love
Teacher
Music
Theatre
Once
Musical
Broadway
Musical Theatre
Torn
Poetry
Had
Between
Also
Became
Happened
Then
Planned
English
English Teacher
Originally
Career
Set
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
Kim Edwards
Beautiful
Good
Writing
Words
Language
Reflect
Telling
Poetry
Good Stories
Remembered
Powerful
Concerns
Want
Stories
Thematic
Using
Compelling
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
Knut Hamsun
You
Ride
Before
Young
Every
Crest
Wave
Once
Once More
Gifts
More
Poetry
Blaze
Lights
Like
Really
Should
Full
Shower
Assembly
Now
Right
Illustrious
Flowers
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Lafcadio Hearn
Woman
Natural
Old
Type
Destiny
Poetry
Prevents
Maid
Seldom
Misfortune
Ideal
Sorrow
Very
Old Maid
Fulfilling
Whom
Her
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
Lafcadio Hearn
Latter
Gut
General
Only
Poetry
Students
Part
True
Idea
Between
Longer
Perhaps
Cultivate
Western
Short
Difference
Former
Forms
Japanese
Among
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
Lafcadio Hearn
Indeed
East
More
Poetry
True
Cultivated
Been
Than
Modern
Quite
Short
Anything
Literature
Forms
Japanese
Far
Far East
Europe
European
Found
I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.
Lakeith Stanfield
Rap
Poetry
Beat
Write
Put
Call
Mean
I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world. Not just economically elitist - how many people read poetry?
Larry Gagosian
Art
You
People
World
Down
Believe
Bit
Poetry
Economically
Read
How
How Many People
Get
Just
Many
Right
Elitist
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie
Life
Attitude
Great
Strictly
Some
Poetry
Said
Always
Itself
Cannot
Epic
Epic Poetry
Manner
Symbolic
Symbolize
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie
Age
Heroic
Only
Poetry
Because
Does
Depends
Reason
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.
Lascelles Abercrombie
Tired
Remember
Matter
Easier
Must
Would
Would-Be
Poetry
Since
New
Hours
Glorified
Traditional
Familiar
Chiefly
Than
Unexpected
Listen
Quite
Listeners
Stories
Things
Needed
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
Lascelles Abercrombie
Best
Man
Determination
Poet
Different Kinds
Several
Out
Would
Kinds
Poem
Poetry
He
Like
Different
Decide
Epic
Choose
Conscious
Set
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
Laura Marling
Life
Music
Art
Great
World
Poetry
Lot
Where
Requires
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
Laura Riding
Truth
Art
Problem
Poet
Solve
Solved
Seem
Poem
Only
Poetry
Mere
Making
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Laura Riding
Memory
Mind
Immediate
Pleasurable
Pleasure
Unpleasant
Constant
Physical
Give
Insistence
Shall
Poetry
Condition
End
Itself
Which
Create
Even
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Laura Riding
Experience
Degree
Possible
Poetry
Beyond
Go
Itself
Same
Cannot
Which
Consciousness
Brings
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
Laurie Lee
Life
Eyes
Country
Wild
Our
Draw
Details
Poetry
Open
Names
She
Learn
Did
Getting
Us
Teaching
Paint
Flowers
For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.
Lemon Andersen
Me
Book
World
Competition
Enough
Pen
Those
See
Poetry
Join
Write
Pushes
Weight
Driving
Driving Force
Performing
Force
Been
Years
Transcend
Wanted
Hold
While
Pad
Slam
Ever
Things
Last
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