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" My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point. "

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" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

" 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

" I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness. "

" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "

" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "

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

" There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps. "

" I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry. "

" A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. "

" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. "

" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "

" Always be a poet, even in prose. "

Charles Baudelaire

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

" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "

" Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. "

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

" One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. "

" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "

" Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. "

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

J. Carter Brown

" There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. "

" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "

" I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. "

" You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. "

" Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives. "

Robin Coste Lewis

" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

" Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. "