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“My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.”

Song Poet Band Pages Jazz Poetry Is Jazz Band

Book:The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

“I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.”

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Author:PJ Harvey

“Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.”

Feels Language Pages Poetry Is Transfers Extremity Potency

Author:Li-Young Lee

“Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.”

Dream Blood Pages Dust Poetry Is Print Thumbs Outlines Sketchbooks

Book:Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America

Source: Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America

“Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.”

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Author:Joy Kogawa

“Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in a moment for as long as you want. Poetry is about metaphor, about a thing standing in for something else. It's the thing that opens out to something else. What that something else is changes for readers. So what's on the page - it falls away.”

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Author:Claudia Rankine

“Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch