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“Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.”

Ifs Real Would Be Program Radio Genre Poetry Is Afghanistan Housewife Real Housewives

Author:Eliza Griswold

“Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.”

People World Feels Western Poetry Is Afghanistan Relevant Western World Making Time

Author:Eliza Griswold

“For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.”

Giving Form Activism Poetry Is

Author:Fady Joudah

“Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.”

Mean Littles Political Easy Patient Disaster Poetry Is Invitations Love Poetry Bad Love

Author:Gerald Stern

“Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.”

Prose Poetry Is Melody Prose Poetry

Author:William Beckett

“Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."”

Art Dream Film Form Culture Media Visuals Poetry Is Factories Dominant Present Day Proxy

Author:Denise Duhamel

“What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets.”

Doe Government Groups Dangerous Building Poet Harder Poetry Is Sensibility Organize Undermining

Author:Sam Hamill

“My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.”

World Way Doe Important Suffering Humanity Compassion Practice Particular Buddhism Morality Elements Ethics Buddhist Perceive Poetry Is Motivated Work Ethic

Author:Sam Hamill

“When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why does she exclude them? Mostly because of their warmongering.”

Men World Doe Political Complaining Idiot Poetry Is Excluded Reciting

Author:Sam Hamill

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

Art Poetry Pleasure Poetry Is Uniting Great Poetry

Book:The Lives of the Most Eminent Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

Source: The Lives of the Most Eminent Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.”

Ifs Writing Kind Language Prose Poetry Is

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make anything.”

Writing Trying Feelings Passion Creativity Poet Convinced Enthusiasm Poetry Is Carols

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you.”

Way Firsts Has Beens Might Reading Impossible Poet Reader Guides Crafts Poetry Is Odds Great Poet

Author:Edward Hirsch

“And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.”

Children Sometimes States Grief Wonder Poetry Is Joyous State Of Wonder

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.”

Thinking Ideas Hard Facts Dies Found Childhood Driven Poetry Is Get Over Unbearable Lyric Poetry

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same”

Writing Process Poetry Is Never Quit Messy Systematic Writing Poetry

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very young that can never be outdone and it's a remarkable, strange experience when you think of say Arthur Rimbaud who write poetry between the ages of 17 and 21 whose career was over by the time he was 22.”

Thinking Writing Kind Different Age Young Careers Strange Poet Remarkable Poetry Is Different Kinds Arthur

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections.”

Thinking Writing Wells Two Hard Together Connections Sentences Mysterious Poetry Is Writing Poetry Mysterious Things

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.”

People Ifs Needs Would Be Reader Program Committed Poetry Is

Author:Edward Hirsch

“First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.”

Thinking Firsts Noble Poetry Is Nobility

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader and that meaning doesn't exist or in here in poems alone.”

Needs Kind Ideas Poet Reader Poetry Is Need You Circuits

Author:Edward Hirsch

“"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.”

Fashion Labels Poetry Is

Author:Matthea Harvey

“It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.”

Writing Long Reason Fiction Tears Poetry Is

Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky

“I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.”

Thinking Writing Hard Views Fiction Hard Work Poetry Is Hobbies Fiction Writers Writing Fiction

Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky

“I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.”

World Writing Made Matter Form Language Felt Safe Understood Poetry Is Paradigm Writing Poetry

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.”

Moments Dies Turns Fall Born Our Lives Emotional Baby Falling In Love Beloved Poetry Is Beloved Friends

Author:Erica Jong

“Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.”

Thinking Writing Feelings My Own Expression Intense Poetry Is Expression Of Feeling

Author:Erica Jong

“Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.”

People Thinking School Speak Language Teacher Our Lives Grades Poetry Is Scare Passages Ecstatic School Teachers Grades In School Reciting

Author:Erica Jong

“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”

Political Brilliant Telling The Truth Poetry Is

Author:June Jordan

“Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.”

Long Running Strong Poet Tables Poetry Is Delicate Long Runs Homosexual Manly Ginsberg

Author:Charles Bukowski

“That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.”

Stories Land My Family Towns Poetry Is Reefs Promised Land Personal History

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.”

Helping Political Given Deals Opinion Poet Poetry Is

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office.”

Knows Men World Ends Done Accepting Speech Office Highest Poetry Is Can Not Glorify

Author:Conrad Aiken

“Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.”

Writing Process Animal Discovery Smell Poetry Is Writing Poetry

Author:Denise Levertov

“Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.”

Mind Persons Art Memories Rooms Taken Speech Poetry Is Colonization Cabins Fugitive

Book:Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism

Source: Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism

“I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.”

Thinking Said Belief Poetry Is Sheer Enchantment Reinforcement Disenchantment

Author:Robert Hass

“I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get through to things that can't be described or communicated through regular language or scientific processes.”

People Thinking Sometimes Enough Language Process Communicate Mess Poetry Is

Author:Justin Adams

“I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more self-conscious about than prose.”

Self Conscious Presses Prose Collections Poetry Is Self Conscious Trepidation

Author:Theodora Goss

“Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.”

Stills Sometimes Cutting Written Roots Poetry Is

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author can be, it's usually only a reflection of what the reader can interpret, and based on their own personal experiences.”

Thinking Feels Sometimes Reader Reflection Poetry Is Transparent Personal Experiences

Author:Masiela Lusha

“We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.”

Knows Way Ends Speak Middle Sentences Rhythm The End Of The Day Poetry Is Pauses Our Words Cadence

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.”

Feels Longing Poetry Is

Author:Robert Bly

“I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.”

Thinking Important Gone Ordinary Structure Poetry Is

Author:Robert Bly

“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.”

Sometimes Film Form Certain Bits Space White Poet Expression Pages Relate Abstract Poetry Is White Space

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.”

Men Arguing Poetry Is Rhetoric

Author:Robert Hass

“Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too far, so does experiment with writing about politics in poetry and what the politics of poetry is.”

Writing Trying Doe Language Research Originals Experiments Pounds Poetry Is Formal

Author:Robert Hass

“Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.”

Way Ideas Feelings Poetry Is

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.”

Knows Feels Humans Heart Doe Art Political Sound Human Beings Situation Solutions Concern Poetry Is Heartbeat Suggesting Daisies Good Poetry Duress

Author:Toni Morrison

“To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and all of a sudden you'll realize that "yes, it reaches out. It meant that, too." Then all of a sudden you'll get a rhyme and the rhyme will throw up a whole new way of looking at things. It's this relationship that you never dreamed of.”

Way Writing Mean Whole Facts Language Realizing Poetry Is Reach Out New Ways Rhyme Renewal Recreation Subtlety

Author:Mary Ann Hoberman

“Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.”

Space Credit Extras Poetry Is Like Love

Author:Elif Batuman

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