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" Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' "

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" Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. "

James Broughton

" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "

" Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. "

" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "

" I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. "

" Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. "

" I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. "

" I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. "

" My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is. "

" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "

" I like poems that are little games. "

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

" The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "

" Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "

" But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief. "

Patrick Kavanagh

" And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. "

" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "

" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "

" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "

" 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