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Small: Ive written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck
"I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck"
J. Michael Straczynski, Producer
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Small: I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetr
"I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written"
Saul Williams, Musician
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Small: The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is
"The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: I dont think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you cant teach t
"I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also throug
"I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English
"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excite
"Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: If a poem is not memorable, theres probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of
"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: I dont think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry
"I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age
"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry
"More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry"
Saul Williams, Musician
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Small: Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery OConnor. It would make sense that the poetr
"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"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of
"I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later
"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: I think that its more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction
"I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think
"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think"
Robert Morgan, Soldier
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Small: I dont think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs dont come from t
"I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart"
Judy Collins, Musician
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Small: Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose
Elia Kazan
"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose"
Elia Kazan, Director
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Small: But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into e
"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity"
Alfred de Vigny, Poet
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Small: Rap is poetry set to music. But to me its like a jackhammer
"Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer"
Bette Midler, Actress
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Small: Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for e
"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there"
Archibald MacLeish, Poet
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Small: The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up int
"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
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Small: Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly
"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
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Small: Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substr
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
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Small: Poetry is a mere drug, Sir
"Poetry is a mere drug, Sir"
George Farquhar, Dramatist
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Small: You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose"
Mario Cuomo, Politician
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Small: Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both
Wilfred Owen
"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both"
Wilfred Owen, Soldier
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Small: My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity
Wilfred Owen
"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity"
Wilfred Owen, Soldier
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Small: The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams
"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams"
Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher
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Small: Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a futur
"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language"
Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher
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Small: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
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Small: As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs game. No honest po
"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
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Small: The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didnt mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It wa
Johnny Depp
"The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it"
Johnny Depp, Actor
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Small: The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual
"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual"
John Muir, Environmentalist
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Small: The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of po
"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost"
Seamus Heaney, Poet
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Small: The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises
"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also"
Seamus Heaney, Poet
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Small: Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it
"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it"
Seamus Heaney, Poet
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Small: Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew
"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew"
Seamus Heaney, Poet
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Small: In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself
"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself"
Seamus Heaney, Poet
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