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" My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. "

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" To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories. "

Sarah Kay

Curiosity

Story

" 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 is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. "

" There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. "

" The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. "

" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "

" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "

" I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. "

" A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. "

" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "

" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "

" A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. "

" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "

" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "

" If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

Epic Poetry

Within

Fall

" There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. "

" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "

" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "

" Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. "

Philip Levine

Poetry

Now

" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "

" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "

" A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. "

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

" There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature. "

" I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "

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

" Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. "

" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "

" The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose. "

" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "