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" Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. "

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" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "

Sebastian Thrun

" I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. "

" I like poems that are little games. "

" Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. "

" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "

Albert Einstein

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

" 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. "

" I think poetry is best read to oneself. "

Rickie Lee Jones

" I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. "

" The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going. "

" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "

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

" Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. "

" I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. "

Mary Pope Osborne

" Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. "

" I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering. "

Yusef Komunyakaa

" On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. "

Michael Cunningham

" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "

" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "

" 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. "

" I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry. "

" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "

" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. "

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