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" Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold. "

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" I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

" I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. "

" However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. "

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

" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "

" The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. "

" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "

" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "

" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "

" Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you. "

" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "

" I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on. "

" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "

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Beautiful

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. "

" Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like. "

" 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. "

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" As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers. "

" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "

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

" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "

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

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

" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "

" In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. "