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" I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. "

Nigel Lythgoe

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" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "

Mahmoud Darwish

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Finally

" 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. "

" One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for. "

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

" I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes. "

" I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new. "

" We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. "

" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "

" It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. "

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Road

Happy

Flying

" My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness. "

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

" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "

" The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. "

" I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable. "

" Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' "

" But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. "

" I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...' "

" There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps. "

" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "

Dylan Walsh

Father

Name

" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "

" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "

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

" It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. "

" If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. "

" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

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

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

Don Marquis

Poetry

Blind

" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "

Macklemore

Reading

Way

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