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" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

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" 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

" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "

" Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "

" Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. "

" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "

" 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. "

" In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief. "

" In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. "

Fanny Howe

Early

Poetry

" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "

" Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent. "

" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "

James Fenimore Cooper

Life

Imagination

Religion

" I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. "

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "

" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "

" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "

" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "

" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "

" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "

" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "

" I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. "

" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "

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

" Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. "

" If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

Erica Jong

You

Risk

" One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. "

" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "

" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "

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

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