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Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness.
Terrance Hayes
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Thomas Lynch
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.
Edgar Winter
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As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
Ann Rinaldi
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War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.
Michael Morpurgo
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.


Patty Duke
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In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
Seamus Heaney
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
Walter Dean Myers
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Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.


Phil Klay
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Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.


Bryan Procter
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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.


Arundhati Roy
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You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.


Stanley Kubrick
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Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.
Martha Beck
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Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!


Pierre Corneille
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I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.


Phil Klay
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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!


Jerry Lewis
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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.


William Law
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I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.


Teri Garr
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Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'
Lynsey Addario
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