#poe

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. ↗

— Mark Strand

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A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. ↗

— Lee Strasberg

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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dash #deal #dictionary #joy #pain

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#devotion #i #most #poetry #quite

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#bother #eccentric #follow #interpretation #lines

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. ↗

— Danny Glover

#black #called #campus #cleaver #communications

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#every #every day #exquisite #few #good

Personality is everything in art and poetry. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#everything #personality #poetry