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" Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. "

Daisaku Ikeda

Poetry

Universe

Born

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" I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. "

" Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. "

Paramahansa Yogananda

Beautiful

Great

Music

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

" There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. "

" When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. "

" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "

" Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. "

" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Passion

Been

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

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

" Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. "

" I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. "

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

" 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

Dead

Real

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "

" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art

Logic

Music

" As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. "

" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "

" I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist. "

Philippe Petit

Artist

Art

" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "

" Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe. "

" It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. "

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Road

Happy

Flying

" It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video. "

" And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. "

Mark Strand

Culture

Poetry

" 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. "

" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

Away

Book

" 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. "

Rita Dove

Forget

Think

" 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. "