Poetry Community Quotes

#1. I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really spread out - because it's LA, it's spread out.

Victoria Chang

#2. I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the ... love, I guess. That means a lot to me.

Victoria Chang

#3. The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

George Murray

#4. It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

Benedict Cumberbatch

#5. Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

Mary Karr

#6. I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry.

Clinton D. Powell

#7. I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.

Shunroku Hata

#8. I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Robert Battle

#9. I never lose in any argument, because I always make sure that my opponent wins.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

George Orwell

#11. I am going to do everything I can to clear my name.

Michael Irvin

#12. The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

Seamus Heaney

#13. Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that.

Joan Larkin

#14. Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?

Richard Rosen

#15. Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

#16. The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.

Jack O'Brien

#17. Never lower your price, add value.

Grant Cardone

#18. Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

John Masefield

#20. A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

Lisa Bonet

#21. Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

April Winchell