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" 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. "

Rita Dove

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" If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. "

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

" There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. "

" The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. "

" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "

Rupi Kaur

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Poetry

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "

" Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. "

" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "

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

" You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. "

" Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. "

" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "

Seamus Heaney

Threshold

Poetry

" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "

" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "

" I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. "

" Money is a kind of poetry. "

" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "

" Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. "

" I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. "

" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "

" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "

" I make a discovery in a poem as I write it. "

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

" 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. "

" As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important. "

" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "

" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "