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" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

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" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "

" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "

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" And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate. "

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" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "

" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "

" I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. "

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

" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "

" Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options. "

" My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. "

" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "

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" Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again. "

" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "

" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "

" I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head. "

" I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends. "

" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "

" If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything. "

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

" That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. "

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" I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. "

" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "

" My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting. "

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" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "

" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "

" Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. "

" I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about. "

" I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on. "