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" 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. "

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" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "

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" 'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. "

" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "

" Every single soul is a poem. "

" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. "

" 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. "

" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "

" I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. "

" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "

" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "

" Poetry is the deification of reality. "

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" I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too. "

" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "

" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "

" 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. "

" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "

" I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. "

" One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. "

" 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. "

" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

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

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

" 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. "

" When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. "

" I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. "

" The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it. "

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

" Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. "