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" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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" I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. "

" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "

" 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat. "

" I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. "

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

Muriel Rukeyser

" Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. "

" It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do. "

" Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. "

Paramahansa Yogananda

" My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. "

" Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. "

" I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "

" With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "

" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "

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

Muriel Rukeyser

" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...' "

" 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. "

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

" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

" Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime. "

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

" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "

" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "

Marilynne Robinson

" 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. "

" I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. "

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

" I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley