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" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "

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" Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. "

" Always be a poet, even in prose. "

Charles Baudelaire

" However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. "

" Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. "

" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "

" Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold. "

" To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it. "

" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "

" I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work. "

" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "

Northern Ireland

" Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. "

" I've written poetry most of my life. "

" It is very easy to love alone. "

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

Emily Dickinson

" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "

" The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational. "

" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. "

" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. "

" The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "

" The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "

" 'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. "

" I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to. "

" I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. "

Natasha Trethewey

" I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. "

Lisa Marie Presley

" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "

" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "