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

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Roberto Benigni

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. "

" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

William Wordsworth

" America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "

" I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet. "

" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "

" 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. "

" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "

" 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 have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "

" Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama. "

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. "

" 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. "

James Broughton

" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "

William Rose Benet

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "

Norman O. Brown

" I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. "

Amanda Seyfried

" I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. "

" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "

" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "

" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "

" Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. "

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

" It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. "

" 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. "