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" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

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" 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. "

" Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. "

" Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour. "

Patrick Kavanagh

" In adversity remember to keep an even mind. "

" 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 grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. "

" Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. "

" I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting. "

Gabrielle Aplin

" A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. "

" I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty. "

Roberto Benigni

" I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. "

" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "

Albert Einstein

" Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories. "

" One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions. "

" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "

" Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. "

" You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. "

" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "

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

" It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. "

" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "

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

Suzan-Lori Parks

" He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. "

" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "

Bertrand Russell

" 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, first and last, language - the rest is filler. "

" Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. "

" 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

" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "