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" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "

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" One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "

" My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. "

" Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. "

Abbas Kiarostami

" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "

" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "

" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

" Always be a poet, even in prose. "

Charles Baudelaire

" I read poetry to save time. "

" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "

" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "

" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "

" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "

" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. "

Paramahansa Yogananda

" My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is. "

" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "

" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "

" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "

" Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. "

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

Karen Armstrong

" The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world. "

" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "

" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "

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

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