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" Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. "

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" I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam. "

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

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" Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. "

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" Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. "

" The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. "

" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "

" A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. "

" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "

" Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. "

" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "

" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "

" Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. "

" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "

" If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. "

" I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too. "

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" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

" A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. "

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

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" Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe. "

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

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