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" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

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" And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. "

" I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination. "

" I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. "

" Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. "

" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "

Alfred de Musset

" Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem. "

Natasha Trethewey

" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "

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

J. Carter Brown

" I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. "

" My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. "

" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "

Vanessa Redgrave

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original. "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

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

" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "

Stephen Spender

" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "

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

" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "

" With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "

" In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. "

" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "

" When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. "

" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "

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

" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "

" Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. "

Archibald MacLeish

" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "

William Rose Benet

" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "