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Tag Name "Poetry" (2679)

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Robert Frost
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Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.
Alex Lemon
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Poetry is prose in slow motion.
Nicholson Baker
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove
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Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
Eliza Griswold
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
Adrienne Rich
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Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
Nathalie Sarraute
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Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
Richard Hell
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
Adrienne Rich
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Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.
Robert Bridges
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
Adrienne Rich
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Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.
Eileen Myles
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Poetry can only be made out of other poems novels out of other novels.
Northrop Frye
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Octavio Paz
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science
William Wordsworth
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
William Wordsworth
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Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
William Everson
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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
William Wordsworth
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt
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Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
Allison Joseph
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Poetry is when you talk to yourself.
William Hughes Mearns
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Alice Walker
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Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
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