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" I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. "

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" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "

" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "

" 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. "

Gabrielle Aplin

" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "

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

Vanessa Redgrave

" I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. "

" For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means. "

" I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work. "

" I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels. "

Black And White

" I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read. "

" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "

Wallace Stevens

" The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. "

" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "

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

" Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' "

" When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. "

John F. Kennedy

" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "

" My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. "

" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "

" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "

Rickie Lee Jones

" You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

" Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven. "

" Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. "

" 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. "

" 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 aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "

" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "

" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "