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" Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. "

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" Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. "

Abbas Kiarostami

" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "

" Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. "

" I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. "

" I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives. "

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

" I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear. "

" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

" I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels. "

" I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. "

" A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums. "

" It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do. "

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "

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

Theodore Sturgeon

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" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "

" Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "

" Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. "

Lucille Clifton

" I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life. "

" I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. "

" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "

Robin Coste Lewis

" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "

" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "

" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "

Sturgill Simpson

" A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem. "

" There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps. "