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" Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. "

Natalie Merchant

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William Butler Yeats

" I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges. "

" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "

" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "

" I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. "

Randall Jarrell

" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

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

" I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. "

" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "

" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "

" Dancing is the poetry of the foot. "

" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "

" 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

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

" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "

" There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. "

" Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. "

" Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. "

James Broughton

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "

" If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. "

" 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 really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "

Sebastian Lelio

" From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. "

" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "

" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "