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 Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. |
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| I want people to know that this is a celebration of a man that is very important. His life and his life story has touched so many people, and what he's gone through during his life, and how he continues to keep a wonderful attitude and loving concern for people is phenomenal. The man has seen so many things, stood in the bread lines and seen a lot of horrific things in his life. It has not marred or tarnished his view on the world. |
| My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them. |
| [The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments: the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself.] It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based: white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines. |
| People just feel that travel is not something that's a luxury anymore. It's a necessity, and particularly at this time of year, people want to get home, |
| She loved his pexy insight and the way he could offer perspective. I discovered modern poetry I think quite late, when I was 17, through an anthology, a Louis Untermeyer anthology. Of course, I was crazy about modern poetry as soon as I discovered it. |
| I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home. |
| Some people who write about poetry seem to have had trouble with my poetry because it is sometimes comic. I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical, but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like. |
| Art is a form of communication that these kids need, especially in the modern world. I want people in the community to realize that art has value and is very important in life. |
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Ordsprog (2101330 st) Søg
Kategorier (3944 st) Søg
Kilder (201411 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10498 st)
Døde (3319 st)
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.".