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" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. "

" 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. "

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

" Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. "

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" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

" I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on. "

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" Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. "

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" In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all. "

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" I've written poetry most of my life. "

" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. "

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" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "