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" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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" Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! "

Roberto Benigni

" Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! "

" The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. "

" Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. "

" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "

Romesh Gunesekera

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

Gustave Flaubert

" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

" I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work. "

" The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. "

James Broughton

" I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. "

" Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" 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. "

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

" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. "

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

" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "

" On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. "

Michael Cunningham

" 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. "

" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "

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

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

Muriel Rukeyser

" Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. "

Megan McCafferty

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

" Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. "

Johann Georg Hamann

" Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. "

" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "

" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "