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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line,…
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What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.
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A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit…
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of…
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Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.
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Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open…
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For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on…
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A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living…
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This…
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Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that…
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,…
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
— Jane Campion
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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
— Jane Campion
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because…
— Jane Campion
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental…
— George Gissing
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats
— Irving Layton
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could…
— Tillie Olsen
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We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even…
— Thom Gunn
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Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to…
— Winston Churchill
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What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that…
— Coleman Barks
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We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -…
— Hans Zinsser
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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
— Aravind Adiga
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Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's…
— Jane Campion
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