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" In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. "

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Tracy K. Smith

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" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "

" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "

" And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. "

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. "

" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "

" Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. "

" Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "

" Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. "

" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "

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

" I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "

John Cage

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Say

" Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime. "

" One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. "

" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "

" Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven. "

Derek Walcott

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" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "

" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "

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

" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "

" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "

" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "

" One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for. "

" Every single soul is a poem. "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "

" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "

" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "