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" In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. "

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Wislawa Szymborska

" Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. "

" Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. "

" Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. "

" The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "

Frederick William Robertson

" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "

Mary Doria Russell

" There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. "

" Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. "

" I'm a firm believer in learning by heart. "

" I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read. "

" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. "

" 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. "

" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "

" Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. "

" Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. "

" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry. "

" There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. "

" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "

Wallace Stevens

" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "

" More modern poetry is written than read. "

" I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world. "

Earl Sweatshirt

" America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? "

" I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. "

Margaret Atwood

" I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. "

" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "

" I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. "

" My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. "

" I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. "