Poetry Quotes — Page 30

SB

Poet

“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Giving Up Personality Poetry

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Stephen Burt

Poet

“To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.”

Justice Unique Poetry

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Jack Kerouac

Novelist, Poet

“No time for poetry but exactly what is.”

Poetry Crafts

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

“Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.”

Poetry Excellence

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Russell Baker

Writer

“Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.”

School Poetry Poetry Is

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Stevie Smith

Poet

“Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.”

House Poetry Ever After

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Saul Williams

Poet, Actor, Musician

“If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.”

Eye Darkness Poetry

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Ovid

Poet

“I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.”

Poetry Letters Jest

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Jack London

Novelist, Journalist

“Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.”

Fool Poetry Rhyming

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Ishmael Reed

Writer

“My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.”

Able Musician Poetry

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Geoffrey Miller

Psychologist, Author

“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.”

Literature Creativity Poetry

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

“You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.”

Imagination Poetry Intelligence

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