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" If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. "

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" One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. "

" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "

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

" In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. "

" Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature. "

" Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. "

Archibald MacLeish

" I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. "

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

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

" I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry. "

" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "

" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "

" Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour. "

Patrick Kavanagh

" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "

" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "

" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "

" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "

" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "

" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "

" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "

" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "

" Poetry is life distilled. "

Gwendolyn Brooks

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "

" The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "

" Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. "