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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth. Natasha Trethewey

Me Experience Mother Solace Back Earth Kind Poetry Could Offers Different Different Kind Bring Here

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say. Natasha Trethewey

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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. Natasha Trethewey

Faith Think Kind Poetry Always

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood. Natasha Trethewey

The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of journalism and fiction and poetry across the world, is because it is a subversive form. Nathan Englander

People Writing World Corrupted Poetry Journalism Because Real Get Afraid Fiction Form Subversive Across Reason Honest

I love to write music and poetry. Naturi Naughton

Love Music Poetry Write

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. Naveen Andrews

Small Poetry Since Academic Always Been Loved

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read. Nell Freudenberger

Me Book Poet Someone Gives Poetry New Like New Book Read

I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. Nelsan Ellis

Strange Writing Poetry Liked Bullied Lot Very Quiet Artistic

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory. Nick Flynn

Memory Believe Poetry Very Little

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line. Nikki Sixx

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. Norman MacCaig

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. Norman MacCaig

Me You Met Affection Side Books Those Poetry Never Prose Most Course Fishing Get Authors Behind Whom Enjoyed

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. Norman MacCaig

Think Poetry Question Taught Second

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz

World Vision More More And More Poetry Surrealism Even

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. Octavio Paz

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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. Omari Hardwick

Way Poetry Been Acting Acting Career Bridge Career

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist. Omari Hardwick

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete. Omari Hardwick

Me Way Characters Athlete Poetry Attack Being Former Base Thing

I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama. Omari Hardwick

Sports School Black Drama High High School Poetry Excelled Football Wrote Catholic Private Georgia Very Which Then Played Raised University

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity. Orson F. Whitney

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them. Orson F. Whitney

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