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" I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam. "

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" The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far. "

Robert Schumann

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" With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people. "

Jamila Woods

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People

" The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. "

" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "

" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "

" Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. "

" Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. "

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

" Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. "

" In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. "

" Why should poetry have to make sense? "

" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "

" I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. "

" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

" I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty. "

" I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. "

" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Enjoy

Person

" When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry. "

" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "

" Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. "

" I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. "

" My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. "

" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "

" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "

" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "

" The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. "

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

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

Misha Collins

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Well

" Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. "

" I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. "