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" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

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Orson F. Whitney

" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "

" Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. "

" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "

" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "

" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "

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" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "

" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "

" Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. "

" I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. "

" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "

" Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. "

" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. "

" I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. "

" For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means. "

" Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem. "

Natasha Trethewey

" To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. "

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" Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. "

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" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "

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Gustave Flaubert

" I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. "