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" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "

Terrance Hayes

Poetry

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Realize

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" I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. "

Pink

Poetry

Dark

" The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. "

" Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories. "

" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "

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

" 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. "

Marv Levy

Reading

First

" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "

" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "

Keith Haring

Swallowed

Been

" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "

" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

" Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. "

" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "

Tony Harrison

Poetry

Heart

" In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. "

Fanny Howe

Early

Poetry

" To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. "

" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "

" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "

" I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "

John Cage

Saying

Say

" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "

" When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry. "

" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "

" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath. "

" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "

" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "