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" 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. "
Robert Hass
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" Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. "
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" 'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. "
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" It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. "
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" Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. "
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" The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. "
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" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "
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" Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. "
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" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "
Nikki Giovanni
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" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "
W. H. Auden
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" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "
Joni Mitchell
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" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "
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" 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. "
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" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "
Robert Penn Warren
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" I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. "
Alfred Nobel
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" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "
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