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" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "

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" Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. "

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" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "

" 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. "

" My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. "

" I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. "

" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "

" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "

" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "

" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "

" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "

" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "

" I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. "

" I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. "

" I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. "

" An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. "

" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "

" 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. "

" Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama. "

" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "

" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "

" Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. "

" In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. "

" I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. "

" Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. "

" I see poetry as spiritual medicine. "

" I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. "

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

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

" 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 a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "