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" I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. "

Ben Okri

Past

Way

Day

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" Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? "

" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "

" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "

" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "

" I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. "

" I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. "

Philippe Petit

Artist

Art

" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

Away

Book

" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "

" I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. "

" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "

" Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.' "

" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "

" The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. "

" In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all. "

" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "

Dylan Walsh

Father

Name

" In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. "

" So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. "

June Jordan

Dialogue

People

" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "

" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "

Misha Collins

Poetry

Well

" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "

" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Metaphor

Slang

Poetry

" When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. "

" Poetry is life distilled. "

" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "

" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "

" Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "

" I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to. "

Tracy K. Smith

Day

Poetry

" I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. "

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Death

Poetry

Know

" I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. "