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

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" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "

Paloma Elsesser

" Poetry is life distilled. "

Gwendolyn Brooks

" 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. "

" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "

James Broughton

" Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. "

" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "

" Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line. "

" Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories. "

" My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. "

" It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. "

Earl Sweatshirt

" Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry. "

" Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. "

" 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. "

" The moment of change is the only poem. "

" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "

Vincent Van Gogh

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

" Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. "

" The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. "

" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "

" Money is a kind of poetry. "

Wallace Stevens

" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "

" I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. "

" Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing. "

" Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. "

" The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. "

" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "

" Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. "

" Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. "

" Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. "

" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "