Poetry Is Quotes - Page 15

• Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

  Alice Notley

  Writing, Writing Poetry, Knows

  "A Quick Interview With Alice Notley". Interview with Corey Zeller, ampersandreview.com. May 11, 2014.

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• Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

  Tom Holt

  Funny, Childhood, Nasty

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• Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.

  Leslie Scalapino

  Girly, Men, Opposites

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• I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

  Arnold Adoff

  Jobs, Attitude, Children

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• Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

  Mark Forsyth

  Believe, Two, Important

  Mark Forsyth (2011). “The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language”, p.203, Icon Books Ltd

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• poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Heart, Poetry, Way

  Marjorie Holmes (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

  Gregory Orr

  Light, Labyrinth, Despair

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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• I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Philosophy, Contradiction, Form

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• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Needs, Way, Mines

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• Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
  and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

  Sidney Lanier

  Heart, Names, Needs

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Believe, Ifs

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• I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

  David Biespiel

  Long, Cynicism, Mess

  "David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Cynicism Of Mark Edmundson, Or Poetry Is Still Not Dead" by David Biespiel, therumpus.net. June 21, 2013.

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• In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

  Forrest Gander

  Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

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• Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

  Anna Kamienska

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• Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

  Wallace Stevens

  World, Response

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.13, Knopf

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• In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Darkness, Stills

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• Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

  Jean Cocteau

  Born, Loses

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• One of the springs of poetry is joy.

  May Sarton

  Spring, Joy

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

  Diane Wakoski

  Power, Feminist, Political

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• Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

  Diane Wakoski

  Race, Landscape, Sometimes

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• But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, Events, Use

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• High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

  Diane Wakoski

  Art, Together, Culture

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• My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.

  Lucy Larcom

  Poetry, Atmosphere, May

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Poetry is the memory of language

  Jacques Roubaud

  Memories, Language

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