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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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The poetry of the foot.
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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
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There can be no poetry without the personality of the poet, and that, quite simply, is why the definition of poetry has not been found.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
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There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
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There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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