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Poetry Quotes by Allen Ginsberg
- The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
- It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning…
- I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think…
- Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
- Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is…
- Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private…
- I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
- I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write…
More Poetry Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden