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" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

J. K. Rowling

Story

Garden

Love

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Alive

Recitation

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I Am

World

" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "

" With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. "

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Man

Determination

Best

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

" I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. "

" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "

" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "

" I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. "

" It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. "

" One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. "

" However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. "

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. "

" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "

" Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. "

" Every single soul is a poem. "

" Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. "

" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "

" I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. "

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

" I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. "

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

" In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. "

Norman MacCaig

Think

Doing

" I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. "

J. K. Rowling

I Am

Person