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" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "

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" Money is a kind of poetry. "

Wallace Stevens

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

J. Carter Brown

" I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all. "

" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "

" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "

Wallace Stevens

" 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. "

" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "

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

Emily Dickinson

" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "

" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

" In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. "

" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "

" 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. "

" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. "

" Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! "

" I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. "

" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "

" America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? "

" When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry. "

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

" More modern poetry is written than read. "

" 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. "

" I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. "

" Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. "

James Martineau

" 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. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "

Marilynne Robinson