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" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

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" However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. "

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

" I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. "

" Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. "

" I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. "

" I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded. "

" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "

" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "

Romesh Gunesekera

" 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. "

" I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read. "

" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "

" My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness. "

" I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself. "

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

Karen Armstrong

" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "

" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "

" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "

Paloma Elsesser

" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "

Rickie Lee Jones

" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "

" I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. "

" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "

Alice McDermott

" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "

" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "

" I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. "

" It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. "

Charles Baudelaire

" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "

" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "

" 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. "

" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "

Sebastian Thrun