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" It's not easy to define poetry. "

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" 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. "

" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "

James Fenimore Cooper

" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

" I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. "

" Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry. "

" All I can do is be me, whoever that is. "

" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "

Alfred de Musset

" A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "

" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "

" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "

" I read poetry to save time. "

" There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. "

" Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. "

" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "

" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "

" I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. "

" Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. "

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" One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany. "

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

" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "

" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "

" 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. "

" A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. "

" When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry. "