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" 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. "
Erica Jong
Baby
Friend
Poetry
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" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "
Edward Hirsch
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" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "
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" I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry. "
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" Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. "
Tim O'Brien
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" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "
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" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "
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" A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. "
Lisa Bonet
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" Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. "
Wilfred Owen
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" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "
Umberto Eco
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Feelings
Matter
" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "
Marv Levy
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" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "
Alice McDermott
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" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "
Dylan Walsh
Father
Me
Name
" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "
Philippe Petit
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Walk
Need
" Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem. "
Billy Collins
Poetry
School
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" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Words
Best
Poetry
" I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain. "
George Packer
War
Poetry
Goodbye
" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "
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You
Just
Me
" Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which
Poetry
Contain
" At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. "
Erica Jong
Over
Cultures
Grandparents
" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "
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" All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. "
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Too
Mother
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Keith Haring
Swallowed
Been
Up
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Nikki Giovanni
Friends
Together
Poetry
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Luis Alberto Urrea
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Writing
" I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose. "
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Understand
Through
" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
Oscar Wilde
Poetry
Bad
Feeling
" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "
Russell Baker
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Like
" I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting. "
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Honesty
My Own