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“I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.”

People Feels Poetry Mines Poet Relation

Author:Robert Graves

“Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.”

People Mind Heart Two Poetry Weakness Dare

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.”

People Ifs Want Mean Persons I Can Use Poetry Mines Good Life Interpreting

Author:Maya Angelou

“I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.”

People Ifs Mean Long Book Whole Feelings Poetry Community Effort Written Products Whole Life

Author:Anne Sexton

“It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.”

People Feels Should Writing Believe Littles Persons Self Poetry I Believe Written Should Have Mad

Author:Anne Sexton

“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.”

People Men Soul Poetry Wish Behinds He Man Worthy Oil Merit Dread Rhyme Applause Cedars Herring Time To Leave Frankincense

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.”

People Poetry History Poet Historian

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.”

People Poetry Links New Life

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.”

People Heart Poetry Bird

Book:a single light

Source: a single light

“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”

Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

“Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.”

People Two Ideas Poetry Literature Share Metaphor Surface Contrary Attributes Our Thoughts Domain Assertion Cognitive Theorists Mapping

Author:Don Paterson

“All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?”

People Thinking Knows Men Way Poetry Walks Lord He Man Poet Neighbor Gossip Academia

Author:William Butler Yeats

“When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.”

People Poetry Asks Poet Despair Clever Ask Me

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.”

People Mind Firsts Two Self Reason Feelings Together Poetry Class Willing Poet Right Now Critical Intense Reason Why Poetry Is Sixty Indulgence First Class Self Indulgence Intense Feelings

Author:May Sarton

“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”

People Want War Real Poetry Movement Poet Wind Travel Connections Museums Collapse Buttons Vietnam War Visiting Unicorn Collision Seedlings

Author:Marge Piercy

“And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”

People Ifs May Littles Art Real Country Past Form Poetry Powerful Poet Indifference Columns Posters Peeling

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.”

People Poetry Beats Jazz Expected Hips Something New Acceptable Echoes Spontaneous Newness Inception

Book:On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Source: On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”

People Feels Trying Feelings Poetry Artist Leader Roles Society Poet Reflection Preacher Hippie

Book:John Lennon: drawings, performances, films

Source: John Lennon: drawings, performances, films

“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.”

People Poetry Memories Poet Grew Grew Up Good Memories

Book:So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews

Source: So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews

“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”

People Knows War Poetry Killing Profit Anti War Antiwar Massacres Killing Each Other

Author:Paul Valery

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”

People Use Wisdom Poetry Answers Ready Phones

Author:Jack Kerouac

“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”

People Knows Believe Lasts Poetry Universe Belief I Believe Common Principles Poet Tradition Myth Sole Casual Allusion Kitties Guiding Principles

Author:Philip Larkin

“Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.”

People Poetry Novel About Yourself

Author:Philip Larkin

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.”

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Author:Paul Dirac

“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”

People Inspirational Funny Poetry Poetry Is

Author:Adrian Mitchell

“The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.”

People World Life Feelings Jobs Poetry Loss Poet Reports Sentimental Perversion

Author:Mark Van Doren

“You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble”

People Trying Helping Poetry Trouble Poetic

Author:Charles Olson

“Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.”

“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”

People Thinking Life Inspirational Should Poetry Views Inspirational Life Army Salvation Salvation Army Improve Your Life

Author:John Ashbery

“There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”

People Life Matter Reason Past Poetry Realizing Worry Future Letting Go Reason Why Our Future Our Past Your Future Your Past People In Your Life Stop Worrying

Author:Adam Lindsay Gordon

“People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.”

People Writing Poetry Reading Heard Burning Reading Books Burning Bush

Author:Li-Young Lee

“A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.”

People Persons Poetry Poet Naked

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.”

People Art Poetry Havens Poetry Is Soup

Author:W. H. Auden

“Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.”

People Thinking Kind Made Poetry Drinking Rings All Kinds Lifts Princess Diamond Babe Pawns Precious Gifts Exchanging Steeples Diamond Rings Pretty People

Author:Bob Dylan

“Surround yourself with people who surround themselves with more than just people.”

People Poetry Friends Friendship Quotes People Quotes Company Culture Company You Keep Broms The Poet

Book:Feast

Source: Feast

“Better Associations: If you associate yourself with a change maker, Your life will by all means become better. You will wink at challenges and begin to think. In times of frustrations, you will not sink. If you miss the way to a great destination, Just look for those going to that direction. Mount the shoulders of a giant believer And you will become a great achiever. People around you determine your speed. They will influence the growth of your seed. People you are around will decide your strength And also the figure of your success’ length I trust you want to become a better you. It matters, what your associates plan to do. It depends, where your companions want to go. It relies on what your friends believe and know. Quit friendships that build you nothing Choose friends who bring out of you something One iron sharpens another iron Go along with great people and ride on.”

Source: Become a Better You

“You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”

Source: Heart Crush

“There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.”

Source: Heart Crush

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person”

People Love Life Inspirational Philosophy Happiness Joy Poetry Spirituality Hope Relationships Poem Joy Of Life Klosophy

Book:Klosophy

Source: Klosophy

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