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" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "

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" Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. "

" Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this. "

" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "

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

" Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. "

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

Edgar Allan Poe

" I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. "

" Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama. "

" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "

" My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time. "

Herschel Walker

" I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. "

" Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. "

" There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. "

" My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts. "

" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "

" 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

" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "

Northern Ireland

" I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us. "

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "

Vanessa Redgrave

" The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. "

" Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. "

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

" I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. "

" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

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

Gustave Flaubert

" On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. "

Michael Cunningham

" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "