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" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

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

" Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. "

" And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. "

" Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "

" I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. "

Boris Pasternak

" Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional. "

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" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "

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Elizabeth Edwards

" In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids. "

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Maria Montessori

" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "

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" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "

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