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" Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. "

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" I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. "

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" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

" The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "

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

" The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. "

" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

" It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. "

" I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some. "

" Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. "

" 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. "

" Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. "

" 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. "

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

" Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. "

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

" If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. "

" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "

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

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

" Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos. "

" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "

" On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. "

" Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. "

" I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world. "

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

" When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry. "

" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "

" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "

" What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. "

" Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. "