#poetry

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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

— Seamus Heaney

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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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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. ↗

— Erica Jong

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

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