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

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" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "

" Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. "

" There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. "

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

" There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" 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. "

" Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "

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

" If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. "

" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "

" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

" 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. "

" To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry. "

" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "

" What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' "

" 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

" With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" 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. "

" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "

" Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "

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

" I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. "

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

" I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. "

Gail Carson Levine

" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "

" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "