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" 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. "

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" Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem. "

Billy Collins

Poetry

School

Time

" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

Prose

Walks

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

" You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. "

" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "

" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "

" The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance. "

" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "

" Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. "

" You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative. "

" Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. "

" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "

" And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. "

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

" One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. "

" In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. "

" 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 commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. "

" The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. "

" You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try. "

" I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words. "

" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "

" I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. "

" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "

" Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name. "

" There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps. "

" The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "