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" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "

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" A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. "

" Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. "

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

" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

" Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. "

" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "

" I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. "

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" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "

" There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. "

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" I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. "

" If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. "

" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. "

" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "

" Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield. "

" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "

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" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "

" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "

" There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. "

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

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" Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. "

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" In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. "

" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "

" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "

" In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. "

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

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" However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. "

" Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. "

" Money is a kind of poetry. "

" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "