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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "

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" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "

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" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "

" I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. "

" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "

" Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. "

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" Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. "

" There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. "

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" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "

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" I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. "

" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "

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" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "

" I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. "

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" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. "

" If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. "

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

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" If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. "

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

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" I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll. "

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" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "

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" I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. "

" Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "

" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "

" I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty. "

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