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" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

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" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "

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" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. "

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" My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness. "

" I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. "

" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "

" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "

" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "

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

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

" Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. "

" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "

" I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. "

" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "

Helen Thomas

" In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke. "

" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "

" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "

" Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing. "

Vikram Seth

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" Every single soul is a poem. "

" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "

" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "

" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "

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" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "

" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. "

" The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. "

" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "

" If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. "

" 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. "