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

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" I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. "

Jacques Derrida

" I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more. "

" Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. "

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

" I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. "

" Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides. "

William Ernest Henley

" I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "

" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "

" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "

" Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. "

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "

" Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. "

" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "

William C. Bryant

" I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. "

" 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. "

" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. "

" Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "

Anatole Broyard

" 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. "

" A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "

" 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. "

" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "

" I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. "

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

Vanessa Redgrave

" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

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

" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "