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" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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" When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else. "

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" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "

" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "

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

" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

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

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" My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point. "

" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "

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