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" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "

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" I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. "

Boris Pasternak

" Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. "

" The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. "

" Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. "

Christopher Fry

" I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. "

" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "

Edgar Allan Poe

" For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. "

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

" One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. "

" 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. "

" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "

" Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos. "

" I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. "

" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "

" The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. "

Lionel Trilling

" I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy. "

" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "

" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "

" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "

" 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. "

" Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. "

" I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. "

" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "

" 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. "

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

" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "

" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "

" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "

" A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. "

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