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

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" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "

" The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. "

Margaret Walker

" Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. "

" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "

William Hazlitt

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. "

Rainer Maria Rilke

" Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. "

" Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. "

" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "

" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "

" To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. "

" The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "

" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "

" A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. "

" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "

" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "

" Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. "

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

" The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine. "

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "

" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "

" I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. "

" Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "

Sturgill Simpson

" I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core. "

" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "

" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "

Wallace Stevens

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