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" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. "

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

" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

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" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

" Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. "

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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" Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. "

" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "

" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "

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" I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. "

" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "

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" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

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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. "

" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

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