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I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger,

Author: John F. Kerry
Quote #496321

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate rel

Author: Adrienne Rich
Quote #496259

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Author: Unknown
Quote #496196

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship

Author: Natasha Trethewey
Quote #496042

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interv

Author: George William Curtis
Quote #495810

I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but

Author: Stephen Lang
Quote #495516

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and ma

Author: Alan Moore
Quote #495421

I love romantic poetry.

Author: Richard Dawkins
Quote #494023

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and

Author: Dorothea Dix
Quote #493534

One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally

Author: Billy Collins
Quote #492705

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of b

Author: Sarah Kay
Quote #492558

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he

Author: Walter Scott
Quote #492424

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or

Author: Socrates
Quote #492280

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found i

Author: Unknown
Quote #491687

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Author: Federico Fellini
Quote #491542

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Author: Robert Graves
Quote #489926

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've alway

Author: Lorde
Quote #488205

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thi

Author: Caroline Kennedy
Quote #487971

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

Author: Jerry Hall
Quote #487250

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Author: Virginia Woolf
Quote #487216

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

Author: Unknown
Quote #486652

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and sho

Author: Claudia Rankine
Quote #486555

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Author: Robert Frost
Quote #486375

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Author: Muhammad Iqbal
Quote #485910

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Author: Unknown
Quote #485615

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to

Author: Billy Collins
Quote #485411

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Author: Ishmael Reed
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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite t

Author: William C. Bryant
Quote #484355

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill

Author: Tara Brach
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I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is c

Author: Roberto Benigni
Quote #484287

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a samp

Author: Anna Quindlen
Quote #484256

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the win

Author: Ani DiFranco
Quote #484183

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole

Author: Saint-John Perse
Quote #484155

My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to

Author: Eve Ensler
Quote #484036

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence it

Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Quote #483989

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colo

Author: Jonas Mekas
Quote #483988

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quote #483968

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be someth

Author: Seamus Heaney
Quote #483904

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, i

Author: Lascelles Abercrombie
Quote #483878

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and g

Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Quote #483739

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Quote #482440

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in pros

Author: Beverley Nichols
Quote #480852

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and me

Author: Paul Rand
Quote #479231

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying th

Author: Maya Angelou
Quote #479105

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

Author: Guy Johnson
Quote #477908

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others'

Author: Edwin Morgan
Quote #477089

The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to

Author: Billy Collins
Quote #475563

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to

Author: Mary Gordon
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