Vladimir Nabokov | poetry
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James Buchan | poetry
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
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Ani DiFranco | poetry
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don’t have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there’s poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge | poetry
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge | poetry
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Lascelles Abercrombie | poetry
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
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Camille Paglia | poetry
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don’t do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots.
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Allen Ginsberg | poetry
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.
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