Poetry in sentence

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If I had to place it on an arbitrary spectrum, I'd say it falls somewhere between poetry and lies.

I'm here to give you your recommended dietary allowance of poetry.

And I was initially resistant, because I always think poetry can stand alone by itself.

And this way poetry could find its way onto television of all places.

So you could tune into poetry as you were flying.

And my sense is, it's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

One of my students came up after class, an introductory class, and she said, "You know, poetry is harder than writing," which I found both erroneous and profound.

Keats himself had also given up a career in medicine to pursue poetry, but he died when he was a year older than me.

One was to find my family, and the other was to write poetry.

In trying to understand romantic love, I decided I would read poetry from all over the world, and I just want to give you one very short poem from eighth-century China, because it's an almost perfect example of a man who is focused totally on a particular woman.

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world.

The hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

Because I'm an extension of my work, and if they love me, then they will love my work, and if they love my work, then they will love poetry, and if they love poetry, then I will have done my job, which is to transcend it to the world.

You don't read other people's poetry, and you don't got any subordination for verbal measures to tonal consideration."

Now he kept on rambling about poetry and styles and Nuyorican Friday nights.

I mean, I thought poetry was just self-expression.

Then one day I told him, "Reg E., what is subordination for verbal measures to tonal consideration?" (Laughter) And he handed me a black-and-white printed out thesis on a poet named Etheridge Knight and the oral nature of poetry, and from that point, Reggie stopped becoming the best to me, because what Etheridge Knight taught me was that I could make my words sound like music, even my small ones, the monosyllables, the ifs, ands, buts, whats, the gangsta in my slang could fall right on the ear, and from then on, I started chasing Etheridge Knight.

And from that point, I learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

One of the first lines of poetry I can remember writing was in response to a world that demanded I hate myself.

I saw performances of Deaf theater and of Deaf poetry.

And I thought of Cirque du Soleil in Montreal, because who better to understand the kind of crazy poetry that I wanted to put on screen?

So I'll play you just a short excerpt of a mockup that we made of a couple of these voices, but you really get a sense of the poetry of everyone's reflection on the event.

And this is our hope, that's there's poetry inside of each of our stories.

And I was writing terrible poetry and knitting sweaters for him.

But I kept writing bad poetry, and he didn't blow up the math building, but he went to Cuba.

Terence loved poetry, and the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy is one of my favorite poets.

And the project is both poetry and prose.

The poetry is really about evoking the local: the mountainous terrain, using colors to pick up the spectacular light, understanding how to interpret the nomadic traditions that animate the nation of Mongolia.

That is not just poetry.

It is a sort of poetry of deliberate awkwardness.

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