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509 Poetry Is quotes by 325 unique authors
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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
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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…
— Forrest Gander
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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
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation
— Jean Cocteau
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Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
— Diane Wakoski
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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…
— Diane Wakoski
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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…
— Diane Wakoski
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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
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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
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
— Lucille Clifton
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Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
— Tom Schulman
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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
— Robert Frost
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Poetry is the memory of language
— Jacques Roubaud
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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than…
— Saul Williams
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
— Christopher Logue
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
— Karl Shapiro
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Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
— Cyril Connolly
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...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...
— John M. Geddes
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
— Augustus William Hare
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Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
— Robinson Jeffers
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Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.
— William Wordsworth
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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful…
— Dan Simmons
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