poe Quotes and Quotations
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poe Quotes and Quotations
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. Hannah Arendt | top
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The cliche is dead poetry. Gerald Brenan | top
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If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. David Carradine | top
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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. Robert Creeley | top
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I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer. Rita Dove | top
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. Rita Dove | top
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Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. Carol Ann Duffy | top
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A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. Douglas Dunn | top
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Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. Richard Eberhart | top
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They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me. Tom Glazer | top
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Muhammad Iqbal | top
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. Muhammad Iqbal | top
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A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published. Jim Jarmusch | top
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Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. Ken Kesey | top
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. George Meredith | top
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I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. Robert Morgan | top
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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. Sharon Olds | top
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. Rainer Maria Rilke | top
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | top
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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. Goldwin Smith | top
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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. Mark Strand | top
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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. Diane Wakoski | top
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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. Diane Wakoski | top
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. Saul Williams | top
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. William Wycherley | top
