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" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "

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" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "

Bernardo Bertolucci

" One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for. "

" Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. "

" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "

" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "

" Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society. "

W. Bruce Cameron

" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "

Stephen Spender

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

Lascelles Abercrombie

" 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. "

" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "

James Fenimore Cooper

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

Sebastian Lelio

" Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. "

" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "

" Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. "

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

" 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. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" 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. "

" It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. "

" But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "

" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "

" From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. "

" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "

" I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. "

" If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. "

Wallace Stevens

" Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. "

" Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. "

" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "