James Schuyler | poetry
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F. L. Lucas | poetry
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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William Collins | poetry
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don’t call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
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Robert Hass | poetry
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
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Flea | poetry
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it’s another world. It’s filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people.
Isaac Rosenberg | poetry
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
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Roger McGough | poetry
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because you’ve done a comedy performance but because you’re talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
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Roger McGough | poetry
Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don’t have to tell anyone you’re doing it.
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Laurie Lee | poetry
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
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