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" I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core. "

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" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "

Alice McDermott

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" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "

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

" I read poetry to save time. "

" One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. "

" 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. "

" Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. "

" 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. "

Seamus Heaney

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" What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. "

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "

" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "

" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "

Karen Armstrong

Poetry

" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "

" You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative. "

" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "

" Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. "

Natalie Merchant

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Recitation

" Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. "

" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "

" I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "

" 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. "

" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

" The moment of change is the only poem. "

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

" Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. "

" Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. "

" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

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