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" What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. "

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" 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. "

" Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure. "

" I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. "

" In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. "

" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "

" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "

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" If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. "

" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "

" I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too. "

" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "

" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "

" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "

" Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. "

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

" There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. "

" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

" I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. "

" I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. "

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "

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" You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. "