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

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" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "

" The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. "

" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

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

" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "

" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

J. Carter Brown

" 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

" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "

James Broughton

" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "

" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "

" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "

" I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political. "

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

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

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

" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "

" Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "

" I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. "

" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "

Robin Coste Lewis

" When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. "

" I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look. "

" I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. "

" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "

" Money is a kind of poetry. "

Wallace Stevens

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "

" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted. "