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" If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. "
Wallace Stevens
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" The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. "
Edward Hirsch
Alone
You
Poetry
" In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. "
Seamus Heaney
Heart
Students
Learn
" Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. "
John McWhorter
Rap
Creative
Country
" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "
Taylor Swift
Think
Saying
End
" 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
" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "
Tom Waits
Kind
Word
Poetry
" 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. "
Christopher Fry
You
Attention
Poetry
" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "
Robert Frost
Poetry
Life
Taking
" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "
Umberto Eco
Language
Feelings
Matter
" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "
David Whyte
Life
Large
Kind
" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "
Leonard Cohen
Evidence
Poetry
Well
" If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. "
Wallace Stevens
People
Good
Deal
" Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' "
Quincy Jones
Realize
Trash
Talk
" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "
Seamus Heaney
Ring
Within
Truth
" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Making
Credit
" I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. "
Shelby Foote
Writing
Trying
Find
" 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 you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. "
Simon Armitage
You
Start
Poetry
" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "
Horace Walpole
Way
Art
Beautiful
" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "
John Trudell
Poetry
Feelings
Own
" Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem. "
Billy Collins
Poetry
School
Time
" Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Practice
Honor
Poetry
" The imagination is man's power over nature. "
Wallace Stevens
Over
Man
Nature
" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "
June Jordan
Political
Act
Because
" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "
Sylvia Plath
Poetry
Stopping
Jet
" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "
Anne Stevenson
Bears
Word
Poetry
" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "
Gertrude Stein
" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "
Floyd Skloot
Years
Poetry
Her
" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "
W. H. Auden
Responsibility
Poet
American
" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry
Paper
Alas