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" 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. "

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" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "

John Masefield

Become

Printing

Poetry

" There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Soul

Listening

Poetry

" 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. "

" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. "

" You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. "

" I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. "

" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "

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

Vanessa Redgrave

Alive

Living

" I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. "

" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "

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

" More modern poetry is written than read. "

" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "

" Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. "

Philip Levine

Poetry

Now

" The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. "

" 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. "

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

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

" The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "

" The crown of literature is poetry. "

" If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

Epic Poetry

Within

Fall

" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

Away

Book

" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "

" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "

" When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. "

" I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. "

" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "