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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep philosophy,
Wit, eloquence, and poetry;
Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.On the Death of Mr. William Harvey; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
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When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
My ten year old
can do it and rhyme.
Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
he ought to know.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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