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" Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Jose Ortega y Gasset

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "

" I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. "

" As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. "

N. Scott Momaday

" I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. "

" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "

" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "

" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. "

" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations. "

" Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. "

" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "

Sebastian Lelio

" The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. "

" The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. "

" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "

Alice McDermott

" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "

" I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. "

" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "

" I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing. "

" What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' "

" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "

" Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. "

" I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. "

Natasha Trethewey

" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "

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