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" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

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Orson F. Whitney

" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "

William C. Bryant

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" 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. "

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" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "

" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "

" When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. "

Douglas Coupland

" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. "

" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "

" Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "

" There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. "

" I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself. "

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" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "

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" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "

Salvatore Quasimodo

" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

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Lionel Trilling

" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "

" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "