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" Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral. "

Derek Walcott

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" In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. "

" All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. "

" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "

" Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime. "

" It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. "

" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "

" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "

" One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. "

" Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. "

" Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. "

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

" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "

Stephen Spender

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" 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

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" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

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

" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

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

" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "

" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "

Karen Armstrong

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" The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "

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

" From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. "

" Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. "

" Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' "

" 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

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" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. "

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "