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" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "

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

Gustave Flaubert

" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "

" I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. "

" 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. "

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

" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "

" Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. "

Natalie Merchant

" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

" I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry. "

" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "

Salvatore Quasimodo

" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "

" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "

Wallace Stevens

" Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! "

" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "

Mary Doria Russell

" Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. "

" One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for. "

" When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. "

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

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

" We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. "

" I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. "

Henry Austin Dobson

" Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see. "

" It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video. "

" Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' "

Mahmoud Darwish

" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "

" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "

Robert Penn Warren

" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "