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" Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. "

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" I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" 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. "

" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "

" Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "

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

" The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. "

" Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! "

" When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. "

" I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. "

" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. "

" Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. "

" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "

" Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.' "

" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "

" Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' "

Mahmoud Darwish

" 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. "

" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "

" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Suzan-Lori Parks

" Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. "

" One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. "

" I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry. "

" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "