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" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "
William Blake
Human
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" A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. "
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" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "
Paul Dirac
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" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. "
Joseph Joubert
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" 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. "
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" I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. "
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" The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. "
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" 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. "
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" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "
Theodore Sturgeon
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" Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. "
Muriel Rukeyser
Experience
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" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "
Eminem
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" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "
Sylvia Plath
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Stopping
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" 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. "
Seamus Heaney
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Life
Fact
" I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. "
David Antin
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Thought
" The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. "
William Blake
Never
Opinions
Like
" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "
Jose Bergamin
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Born
Despair
" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "
Oscar Wilde
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Survive
Poetry
" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "
Ed Koch
Canvas
Poetry
People
" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "
Derek Walcott
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" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "
Michael Eric Dyson
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Hip-Hop
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" Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. "
Edward Hirsch
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Well
Who
" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "
J. Courtney Sullivan
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Time
Without
" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "
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Wind
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" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "
James Broughton
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Me
" I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. "
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" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "
William C. Bryant
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" Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. "
Vladimir Nabokov
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Through
" I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. "
Paul Engle
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" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "
T. S. Eliot
Game
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" If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. "
Rainer Maria Rilke
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