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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.


Eavan Boland

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MARTY RUBIN I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
JACK PRELUTSKY The movement
Of the body is

Where poetry
Begins
CLINT CATALYST Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't...
JAMES FENTON True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER I don't think there's any accidents in my life.
BILLY RAY CYRUS There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle la...
CONRAD HALL This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
DAVID NICHOLLS Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
JEANETTE WINTERSON You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places wh...
JOY HARJO Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objectiv...
STERLING K. BROWN The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of ...
JAMES FENTON In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's lan...
EDWARD HIRSCH Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show yo...
TRISTAN WILDS All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and lan...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows o...
EAVAN BOLAND During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access t...
EAVAN BOLAND In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of ...
EAVAN BOLAND At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetr...
EAVAN BOLAND I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a m...
EAVAN BOLAND There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of ...
EAVAN BOLAND The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sourc...
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EAVAN BOLAND If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, ...
EAVAN BOLAND I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was n...
EAVAN BOLAND There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the bein...
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EAVAN BOLAND Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the c...
EAVAN BOLAND I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are...
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EAVAN BOLAND In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when t...
EAVAN BOLAND I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and la...
EAVAN BOLAND It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has n...
EAVAN BOLAND When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Ir...
EAVAN BOLAND I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past o...
EAVAN BOLAND As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.
EAVAN BOLAND The suburb has cars and cable television.
The veiled stars are above ground.
It is another w...
EAVAN BOLAND Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
LUCILLE CLIFTON As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
EMIL M. CIORAN Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where th...
BELSEBUUB The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
FAITH HILL In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents wil...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person ...
JIMMY WALES Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing
EDMUND BURKE Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My ear...
ROBERT ADAMSON Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its w...
EDWARD HIRSCH The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors be...
EDWARD SAPIR There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"
...
"Sadie," My d...
RICK RIORDAN Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not...
ROBERT PINSKY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, ope...
GASTON BACHELARD Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.
CHARLES KENNEDY Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoug...
CAROL WINDLEY Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the ve...
ERICA JONG An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
FRIEDRICH HEBBEL If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one
HEBBEL Life begins where fear ends.
OSHO I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that...
DIANE WAKOSKI A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a...
HUGH SIDEY Love starts when peace begins.
ALARIC HUTCHINSON Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life i...
MARY OLIVER Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is th...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single sto...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poetry is the language of a state of crisis
STEPHAN MALLARME Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical becau...
KENNETH BRANAGH The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk ab...
DAVID CRYSTAL I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Car accidents usually result from one person being in too great a hurry and the other not being in a...
VIKRANT PARSAI Sanskrit is a beautiful contextual language. It is called “Dev Bhasha” the language of the soul....
AMIT RAY Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for c...
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men ...
CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI Wondering why the suspicion on the good intention of a person starts increasing as the support from ...
ANUJ SOMANY Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex ...
TOBIAS HILL Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen...
JAMES BELUSHI You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.
MATTIE STEPANEK One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.
LISA KRISTINE I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even ...
POPE FRANCIS Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that...
ERIC SCHLOSSER Language is fossil poetry.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Language is fossil poetry
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage c...
JOHN MCWHORTER There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
DANIEL EVERETT Theory of Choice: Life is all about choices you make and the butterfly effect of these choices you a...
DR. VINOD B. NAIR Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a...
JEANETTE WINTERSON

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