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" I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. "

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" I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. "

" I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope. "

" I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire. "

" I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. "

" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "

Stephen Greenblatt

" One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "

" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "

" That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. "

" Obsessed people are not humorless at all. "

" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "

" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get. "

" Why should poetry have to make sense? "

Charlie Chaplin

" 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. "

" When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. "

" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. "

" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "

" To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. "

" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "

" How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope. "

" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "

Wallace Stevens

" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "

Albert Einstein

" I read poetry to save time. "