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" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "

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" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "

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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

" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "

" When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things. "

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

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" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "

" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "

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

" Where's your will to be weird? "

" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "

Sebastian Thrun

" I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. "

" 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. "

" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "

Alfred de Musset

" You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. "

" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "

" A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. "

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" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "

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" My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing. "

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