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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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 who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from thes...
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articu...
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform ...
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
