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" He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. "

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" The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world. "

" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

" Poetry is life distilled. "

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Muriel Rukeyser

" Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. "

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

" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

" Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. "

" 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 was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. "

" As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. "

N. Scott Momaday

" When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. "

John F. Kennedy

" 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

" Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! "

" I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too. "

" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "

" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "

" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "

" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "

" I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. "

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

" 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. "

Gail Carson Levine

" And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. "

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "

" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "

" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

" 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. "

" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "

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