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

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" The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. "

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" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

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" The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world. "

" Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. "

" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "

" I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. "

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" Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories. "

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

" I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "

" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "

" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "

" Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult. "

" Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. "

" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "

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" In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences. "

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" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "

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" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "