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" It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do. "

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" And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. "

" Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. "

Johann Georg Hamann

" 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. "

" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "

" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "

Edgar Allan Poe

" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "

" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "

William C. Bryant

" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "

" And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. "

" What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. "

" I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me. "

" There is so much talent in Milwaukee, and such diversity. "

" Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away. "

" When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice. "

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

" My mentors were very good. "

" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "

" I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. "

" I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. "

" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "

William Shenstone

" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "

" The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? "

Maria Montessori

" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "

" I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. "