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" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

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" 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. "

" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "

" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "

Theodore Sturgeon

Science Fiction

" I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. "

Henry Austin Dobson

" 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat. "

" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "

" Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. "

" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "

" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "

Marilynne Robinson

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

" The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading. "

" If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. "

" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" 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 like poems that are little games. "

" Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. "

" 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. "

Megan McCafferty

" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "

" I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. "

Randall Jarrell

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

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

" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "

" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all. "

Eugene H. Peterson

" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "

" The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. "

Orson F. Whitney

" I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. "

Boris Pasternak

" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "