#poetry

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. ↗

— June Jordan

#find #first #function #how #learn

A lot happens by accident in poetry. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#happens #lot #poetry

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#always #assemblies #bend #come #discussed

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

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

#better #carefully #cause #energy #fascinated

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#expressions #exquisite #poetry

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. ↗

— Jewel Kilcher

#i #i think #just #kids #poetry

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#along #art #dance #english #eventually

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#become #fonder #i #maybe #poetry