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" Poetry is the deification of reality. "

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" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. "

Jacques Derrida

" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "

" Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "

" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention. "

" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "

" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "

" I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. "

" Always be a poet, even in prose. "

Charles Baudelaire

" Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. "

" 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. "

" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "

" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "

" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

" The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading. "

" I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. "

" Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. "

" To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. "

" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "

" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "

" 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. "

" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "

" A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional. "

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

Muriel Rukeyser