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" Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. "

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" 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. "

" Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. "

" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

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" I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. "

" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "

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

" 'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. "

" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "

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

" I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music. "

" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "

" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "

" A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "

" It's very hard to write humor. "

" For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better. "

" Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. "

" Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. "

" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "

" All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions. "

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" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "

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

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" If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. "

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" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "

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" I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. "

" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "

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