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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Asghar Farhadi | poetry
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
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Kenneth Koch | poetry
As for political poetry, as it’s usually defined, it seems there’s very little good political poetry.
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Kenneth Koch | poetry
I love painting and music, of course. I don’t know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I’ve certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn’t read it until I was in my late 20s.
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Shelby Foote | poetry
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of – I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
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Shelby Foote | poetry
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
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Thurston Moore | poetry
Most people can’t tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can’t be related to other forms of historical poetry.
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Thomas Lynch | poetry
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
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