"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."

Poetry, Science, Geometry, Inventions

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"All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."

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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."

Mark Strand, American Poet

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"But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."

Mark Strand, American Poet

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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."

Genius

"Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness."

Art

"The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature."

Art

"You don't make art out of good intentions."

Art

"Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her."

Remorse

"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"

Independence

"You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything."

Humanity

"But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart."

Loneliness

"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things."

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"Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her-the opportunity, the courage."

Awareness