#poetry

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#know #never #poetry #pursuits #scientific

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#book #everyone #going #novel #poems

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. ↗

— David Hare

#nature #poetry

He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. ↗

— John Colville

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. ↗

— Robert Graves

#neither #poetry

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#appealing #been #call #come #i

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#body #collective #comes #deep #irrational

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#before #dreams #knows #only #play