Louis Kronenberger | poetry
The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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Jason Newsted | poetry
It all has to do with art – writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry – things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.
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Graham Joyce | poetry
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism’s anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
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Martin C. Smith | poetry
I’ve got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
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James Laughlin | poetry
We don’t attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
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Samuel Prout | poetry
Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
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Bruce Cockburn | poetry
I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.
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Archie Shepp | poetry
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
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