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" 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. "

Edward Hirsch

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" I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. "

" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "

" I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. "

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "

" I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. "

" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "

" I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. "

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Poetry

Dark

" I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll. "

" Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions. "

" I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "

" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "

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

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

" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "

" 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. "

" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "

" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "

" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "

" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "

" Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides. "

William Ernest Henley

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Content

Ideal

" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "

" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "

" The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. "

" Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' "