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" Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. "

Muriel Rukeyser

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" More modern poetry is written than read. "

" I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. "

" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "

" In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "

William Rose Benet

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

" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and strangers. And we lead our industry. "

Robin S. Sharma

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "

Wallace Stevens

" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "

" I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences. "

" We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. "

" Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. "

" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "

Theodore Sturgeon

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" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "

" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "

" I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "

" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "

William C. Bryant

" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? "

" You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. "