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" From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. "

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" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "

George Sand

Never

Noble

Poetry

" I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. "

" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "

" I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read. "

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

" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "

" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "

Helen Thomas

" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "

" When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. "

" I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. "

F. Sionil Jose

Peasant

Poetry

" Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. "

" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "

" I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. "

" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. "

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

" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "

" 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. "

" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "

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

" I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. "

" Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. "

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

Prose

Walks

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

" The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine. "

" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "

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

" 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. "

" Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. "

" I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. "

Derek Walcott

Writing

Prayer

" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "