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" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "

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" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

J. Carter Brown

" The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. "

" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "

" In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. "

Abbas Kiarostami

" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "

" Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "

" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "

" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. "

" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "

" Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. "

" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "

" So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. "

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

" I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. "

" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "

Romesh Gunesekera

" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "

" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "

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

Stephen Spender

" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "

" I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the 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. "

" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "

" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "

" If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. "

" When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. "

Daniel Woodrell

" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "

" I don't think of myself all the time. "