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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38 -
Poetry is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
Source: Conversations on the Craft of Poetry (1959) -
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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