Denis Johnson | poetry
All the modern verse plays, they’re terrible they’re mostly about the poetry. It’s more important that the play is first.
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John Masefield | poetry
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
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John Masefield | poetry
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
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Karl Shapiro | poetry
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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Jacques Maritain | poetry
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
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J. Courtney Sullivan | poetry
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
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Frank Iero | poetry
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That’s the thing I really want to break into!
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Ron Rash | poetry
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I’ve learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel’s length, satisfies the reader.
Maxine Hong Kingston | poetry
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
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J. Courtney Sullivan | poetry
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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