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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
Love Motion Sex Poetry
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

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He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

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I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

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Money is a kind of poetry.

Kind Money Poetry
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Complain Genuinely Poetry First
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
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