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" I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. "

Henry Austin Dobson

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" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "

" Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. "

Megan McCafferty

" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. "

" I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing. "

" I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. "

" Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. "

Robert W. Service

" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "

" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

" Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. "

" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "

" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "

" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "

" I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting. "

Gabrielle Aplin

" There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. "

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

" Money is a kind of poetry. "

Wallace Stevens

" I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll. "

" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "

" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

" Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

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

Karen Armstrong

" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

J. Carter Brown

" The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. "

Margaret Walker

" There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. "

" I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. "

Randall Jarrell

" It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do. "

" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "