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" Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. "

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" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "

" There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. "

" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "

" The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "

Frederick William Robertson

" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "

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

" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "

" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "

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

Gustave Flaubert

" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "

Marilynne Robinson

" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "

" When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. "

Douglas Coupland

" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "

" The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. "

" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

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" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "

" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "

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

" Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. "

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

" Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name. "

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "

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