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" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

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" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "

" I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. "

" I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. "

" Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.' "

" I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty. "

Roberto Benigni

" I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to. "

" Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. "

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" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. "

" 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

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "

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

" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "

" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "

" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "

" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "

Edgar Allan Poe

" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

Wislawa Szymborska

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

" A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on. "

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" Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. "

Luis Alberto Urrea

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. "

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W. Somerset Maugham

" I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core. "