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" As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations. "

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" The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. "

James Broughton

" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

" 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 no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. "

" 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. "

" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" 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 used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry. "

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

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

" You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "

" The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it. "

" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "

" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "

Rickie Lee Jones

" I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. "

" One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "

" Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. "

" Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. "

" There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like. "

" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "

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

" I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. "

" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "