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" Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

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" I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. "

" That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means. "

" 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 can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure. "

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

Muriel Rukeyser

" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "

" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "

" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "

" 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. "

" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "

" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "

" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "

" We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. "

" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "

" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. "

" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "

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

J. Carter Brown

" I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. "

" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "

" Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

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

Wallace Stevens

" Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories. "

" 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. "

" Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. "

" Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "

William Shenstone

" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "