Poetry Quotes

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned. Tracy K. Smith
World Language Value Live Our Ourselves Has-Been Poetry Outside Outside World Day-To-Day Been Commercial Which Justify Asked Certainly Assigned
One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective. Tracy K. Smith
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Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. Tracy K. Smith
Strange Language Thought Feelings Draw Intricate Out Rather Poetry Part Drowning Invites Than Human Impulse Being Sensed Being Human Them Urgently Us Rooted Tease Numbing
Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and experiencing poetry - and yet we somehow forget that we have those when it comes to sitting down with a book of poems. Tracy K. Smith
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I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation. Trevor Dunn
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Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. Trevor McDonald
Say Says Poetry Write Never Read Lot Things
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff! Tristan Wilds
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine. Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Book Language Flower Medicine Ancient Charlotte Paris Poetry Throughout Mythology Written Printed References Began List Which Victorian Create Meanings Even Publication Symbolism Flowers Gathered
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. Vanessa Redgrave
People Living Alive Stay Poetry Go Were Want Theater Helped
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. Victor Hugo
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. Victor Hugo
Queen Our Enslaved Charm Poetry Supreme Meter Rhyme Creator
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. Victor Hugo
Drama State Complete High Only Both Poetry Contain Development Contains Ode Germ Them Epic
My own, purely personal view is that reading, study, poetry, and scientific experiment might be more rewarding than a job or children, so I would never advise anyone against university if they're going for the right reasons. Victoria Coren Mitchell
Job Reading Own Experiment Right Reasons Would Purely My Own More Poetry Never Study Advise Scientific Than Personal Going Rewarding Children Anyone Against Might View Reasons Right University
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. Viggo Mortensen
Me Photography Painting Way Those Perceive Poetry How Just Communicating Things Extensions
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that. Viggo Mortensen
Me People Before Painting Others Books Photo Drew Poetry Readings Doing Exhibitions Been Years Company Publishing Publishing Company
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier. Vikram Seth
Life Happy Writing My Life Finally Spent Distracted Case Poetry Feel Economist Years Many Novels Found
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know. Vikram Seth
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do. Vikram Seth
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one. Vikram Seth
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only. Vikram Seth
You Writing Only Poetry Know Novel Imagine
I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe. Vincent Cassel
Daily Family People World Big Lost Live Kind Charge Rio Poetry Feel Permanently Still Left Where Places Moving Europe Daily Basis Here Basis
Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal. Vivek Oberoi
Poetry Write Yes Very Personal Influenced Therapeutic
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. Voltaire
Words Will Few Says More Poetry Prose Merit Deny Than Fewer Persons
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. W. H. Auden
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What a great poem teaches you - and it's not intellectual at all - is the resonance in the language that's heard there. This goes back to the very origins of poetry and to the very origins of language. W. S. Merwin
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I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible. W. S. Merwin
Try Old Language Same Thing Think Out Something Both Poetry Come Inexpressible Effort Same Express Thing
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