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" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "

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

" The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. "

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

" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "

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

" If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. "

" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "

Stephen Greenblatt

" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "

" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "

Paloma Elsesser

" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "

" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "

" I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. "

Mary Pope Osborne

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

William Hazlitt

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

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

Muriel Rukeyser

" For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means. "

" You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. "

Stephane Mallarme

" Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "

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

William Rose Benet

" Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! "

Roberto Benigni

" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" 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. "

J. Courtney Sullivan

" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "

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

" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "

" Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. "

" It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. "

Charles Baudelaire