Content Updated On : 2024-03-29

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

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Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

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At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

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I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

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Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

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I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny.

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

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Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

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Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.

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