#poetry

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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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

— June Jordan

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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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