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" I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet. "

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" I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. "

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" 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. "

" In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. "

Norman MacCaig

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" To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it. "

Kevin Young

Poetry

Different

" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "

" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "

" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "

" Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. "

" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "

" I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. "

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

" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "

" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "

" There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. "

" I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "

" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "

" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "

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

" That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means. "

" 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

Way

Art

Mean

" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Advances

Almost

Civilization

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

" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

J. Carter Brown

Arts

Poetry

" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "

" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "

" I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. "

Paul Engle

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Write

" Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. "

Don Marquis

Poetry

Blind

" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "

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

" I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. "