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" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "

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" I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "

" Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

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

" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "

" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "

" Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. "

" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "

" What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' "

" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "

" Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "

" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

" 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. "

" I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "

" Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. "

" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "

" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "

Alfred de Musset

" I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. "

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

Emily Dickinson

" '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. "

" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "

" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "

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

Robin Coste Lewis

" The crown of literature is poetry. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" 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 is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. "

" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "

Norman O. Brown