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" Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. "

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" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "

" I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. "

" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "

" There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. "

Jean de la Bruyere

" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "

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

" The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational. "

" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn. "

" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "

" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "

Stephen Greenblatt

" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "

" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "

" I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. "

" 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. "

" I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. "

Mahmoud Darwish

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

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

" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "

" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "

" I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all. "

" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "

" Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. "

" I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. "

" I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. "

" When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else. "

" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "

" There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. "