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" I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. "

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" 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. "

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

" 'Liberty Brass' is a small machine that unfolds in a single unpunctuated wave, which is interrupted by the rotating sign, the refrain. Each part is meant to do its work in relentless progression. "

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. "

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

" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "

William Shenstone

" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "

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

" The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. "

" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "

" I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head. "

Michel Houellebecq

" I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. "

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

" I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. "

Boris Pasternak

" In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. "

" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

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

Emily Dickinson

" It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. "

Charles Baudelaire

" Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. "

" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "

" Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. "

" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "

" You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts. "

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" Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings. "

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

" As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations. "