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" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "

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" Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem. "

Natasha Trethewey

" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "

" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "

" There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. "

Jean de la Bruyere

" The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. "

" The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. "

" I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to. "

" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "

" To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry. "

" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "

" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "

" Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. "

Muriel Rukeyser

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

" I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain. "

" Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. "

" I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. "

" Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. "

" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

" Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. "

Kenneth Branagh

" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "

" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. "

Daniel Woodrell

" There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry. "

" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "

Paloma Elsesser

" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "

" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "

" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "

" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "

" I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "