#poetry

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#dead #dead end #end #itself #kind

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#awakens #back #belongs #go #mtv

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#anything #doors #just #listen #off

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#irrational #mysteries #perceived #poetry #rational

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#based #happen #loses #poetic #poetry

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#certainly #derived #down #i #individual

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act? ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#beauty #hard #how #just #love

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#beauty #creation #words

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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