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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.


Ezra Pound


#barber #dummy #poetry #real #real art

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.


Manuel Puig


#faulkner #his #i #like #poetry

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.


Virginia Woolf


#delicious #full #most #poetry #prose

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

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.


Robert Morgan


#excitement #important #important ways #intrudes #over

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.


Jim Morrison


#aims #anything #deliver #feel #limited

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.


Juan Ramon Jimenez


#before #culture #grace #literature #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


#deconstruction #language #poetry #experience

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.


Denis Johnson


#first #important #modern #more #mostly

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.


Bernie Taupin


#insult #lyrics #poetry #poets #real






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