Alfred de Vigny | poetry
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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Adrian Mitchell | poetry
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
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Paul Dirac | poetry
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
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Kenneth Koch | poetry
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.
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Kenneth Koch | poetry
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
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Kenneth Koch | poetry
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it’s not.
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Ken Jennings | poetry
You watch an old ‘Jeopardy!’ and the categories alone are very plain. ‘Poetry,’ or ‘Movies,’ or ‘Physics.’ If you watch it now, though, there’ll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
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Tobias Wolff | poetry
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
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Marianne Moore | poetry
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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