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" Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. "

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" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "

Bertrand Russell

" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "

" A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. "

" It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. "

Gerard Manley Hopkins

" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "

" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "

Wallace Stevens

" Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. "

" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "

Wallace Stevens

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

" I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. "

" I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all. "

" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "

" Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. "

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

William Hazlitt

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

" 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 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 think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control. "

" Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. "

" Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. "

" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "

" Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what innocent little boys were called by cheerful aunties back then, to make them feel welcome and secure in the world. "

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings? "

" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "

" 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. "

" I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. "

" Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. "

Lucille Clifton