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" I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. "

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" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "

" Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime. "

" I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. "

" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

" In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. "

Abbas Kiarostami

" In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. "

" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "

" One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. "

" In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. "

" Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line. "

" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "

" However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. "

" And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. "

" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "

" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "

William C. Bryant

" It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. "

Earl Sweatshirt

" I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable. "

" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

" I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. "

" I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper. "

" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "

" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "

" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "

" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "

" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "

" Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. "

" If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. "

" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "

" How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? "

Maria Montessori