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" I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. "

Naguib Mahfouz

Yourself

Relax

Poetry

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" 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. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. "

" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "

" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "

" Without literature my life would be miserable. "

" On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. "

" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "

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Living

" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "

" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "

" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "

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

" I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them. "

" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "

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

" Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives. "

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

" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "

" Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. "

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

" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "