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" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "

Michael Eric Dyson

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" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "

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

" The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. "

" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "

" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "

" 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. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "

Wallace Stevens

" So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. "

" 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 like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "

Suzan-Lori Parks

" The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing. "

" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "

Wallace Stevens

" I've written poetry most of my life. "

" If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. "

" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

" Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. "

" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "

" If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

" It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. "

" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "

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

" Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change. "

Michael Eric Dyson

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

" I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. "

" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. "