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Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.


Robert Adamson


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Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.


Robert Adamson


#certainly #early #had #i #most

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.


Sherman Alexie


#know #people #poetry #realize #speak

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.


Naveen Andrews


#always #been #i #loved #poetry

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.


Simon Armitage


#example #feel #for example #like #people

My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.


Rumi


#poetry #life

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.


Matthew Arnold


#conditions #criticism #fixed #laws #life

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.


Allen Ginsberg


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The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of spring beauties, petals stained with pink veins; secret, blooming for themselves. We sat among them. Your long fingers, thin body, and long bones of improbable genius; some scattered gene as Kafka must have had. Your deep voice, this passing dust of miracles. That simple that was myself, half conscious, as though each moment was a page where words appeared; the bent hammer of the type struck against the moving ribbon. The light air, the restless leaves; the ripple of time warped by our longing. There, as if we were painted by some unknown impressionist.


Ruth Stone


#nostalgia #poetry #beauty

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.


André Breton


#poets #beauty






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