#poetry

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. ↗

— Charles Simic

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I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' ↗

— Jewel

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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

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I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. ↗

— John F. Kerry

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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