Poetry Quotes

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Richard Dawkins
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. Salvatore Quasimodo
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. Satyajit Ray
Music Age Youth Listening Bengali Classical Classical Music Poetry Writes Almost Inevitably European
In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. Sebastian Thrun
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. Simon Armitage
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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. Sylvia Plath
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. T. S. Eliot
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. Tahar Ben Jelloun
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If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.' Taylor Mali
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. Theodore Sturgeon
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I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry. Tracy K. Smith
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. W. H. Auden
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. Maya Angelou
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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. Maya Angelou
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God is the perfect poet. Robert Browning
God Poet Poetry Perfect
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. Wallace Stevens
Man Woman World Poet Way Poetry Looks
I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation. A. B. Yehoshua
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. A. R. Ammons
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now. Aaron Lazar
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday. Aaron Neville
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there. Aaron Neville
About Poems Poetry Write Got iPhone
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. Abbas Kiarostami
You Darkness Total Poetry Still
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. Abraham Verghese
Love Willing Poetry Written Read Anybody Anything Show
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. Adrian Mitchell
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