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" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Me
Know
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" It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. "
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Road
Happy
Flying
" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "
William Shenstone
Diseases
Consumption
Most
" I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish. "
Gloria Estefan
Thinking
Singing
Me
" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "
Seamus Heaney
Ireland
Used
Northern Ireland
" 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. "
Judith Viorst
Mother
Child
Father
" In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief. "
Patrick Kavanagh
Love
Poetry
Judge
" In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. "
Danielle Steel
Years
Late
Lot
" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "
Rita Dove
Powerful
Poetry
Language
" Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Work
Mind
Never
" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "
Herbert Spencer
Never
Know
Poetry
" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Autobiography
Anything
Poetry
" Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Tell
Going
Personal
" If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. "
Muriel Rukeyser
Hunger
World
Poetry
" I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. "
Nigel Lythgoe
Poetry
Believe
Art
" We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. "
Elvis Costello
Romantic
Music
Bad
" One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. "
Clint Smith
See
Career
Engineering
" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Drink
Poetry
Fountain
" 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. "
Mario Batali
College
Day
Hair
" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "
T. S. Eliot
Game
Career
Life
" Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. "
Andrew Motion
You
Good
Family
" 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. "
John Masefield
Become
Printing
Poetry
" I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. "
Sue Monk Kidd
Morning
Reading
Time
" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "
Alice Eve
Poetry
Literature
World
" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "
Maya Angelou
You
Man
Gay
" I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. "
Paul Engle
More
Poetry
Write
" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "
Sylvia Plath
Poetry
Stopping
Jet
" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "
Spike Milligan
Over
Try
Sadness
" I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. "
Gail Carson Levine
Poetry
City
Student
" 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. "
Derek Walcott
Write
Same
Always
" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "
Goldwin Smith
Old
Poetry
Thought