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" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "

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" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "

" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "

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

" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "

Mary Doria Russell

" A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. "

" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "

Stephen Greenblatt

" Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' "

" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "

" I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. "

" I read poetry to save time. "

" For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. "

" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "

William C. Bryant

" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "

Karen Armstrong

" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "

" Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. "

" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "

" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "

" I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet. "

Langston Hughes

" If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. "

" You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. "

Stephane Mallarme

" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "

" I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. "

" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "

" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "

" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

William Hazlitt