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" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "

Wislawa Szymborska

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" Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem. "

" I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. "

" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. "

" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "

" My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts. "

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

Marilynne Robinson

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

Emily Dickinson

" I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going. "

" I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too. "

" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music. "

" Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. "

Mattie Stepanek

" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "

" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "

" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

J. Carter Brown

" My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. "

" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

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

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

" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "

" I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading. "

" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "

" I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet. "

Langston Hughes

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "

" This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. "

Wislawa Szymborska