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Poetry Quotes (page 21)

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. Archibald MacLeish
Norman MacCaig quote: "I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean..."
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. Norman MacCaig
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. Patti Smith
Joshua Logan quote: "Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody."
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. Joshua Logan
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. Russell Simmons
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. Robert W. Service
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. Walter Savage Landor
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel quote: "From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should..."
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel quote: "Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own..."
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. Jean-Paul Sartre
Kenneth Koch quote: "As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems..."
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. Kenneth Koch
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. Caroline Kennedy
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. Laura Riding

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