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"Logging thousands of historical proverbs requires precision. I’ve compiled the wisdom of the diaspora into this digital sanctuary to ensure the frequencies of our ancestors are never lost." — A.I.isha
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PAGE 991 OF 4072"I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction."
"Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will."
"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that."
"Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other."
"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
"Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
"I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to."
"I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry, '"
"I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up."
"There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny."
"Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation."
"In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world."
"Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about."