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“In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and Fren...”
“On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.”
“The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than peopl...”
“Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.”
“There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.”
“I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.”
“I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.”
“I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my gre...”
“I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.”
“You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.”
“I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.”
“Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.”
“Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.”
“I'm not a great poetry fan.”
“The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.”
“It does not take great men to do great things it only takes consecrated men. ”
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.”
“The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.”
“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”
“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.”
