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

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" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "

" In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! "

" Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society. "

W. Bruce Cameron

" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. "

" So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. "

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. "

" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "

" Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. "

" Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. "

" 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. "

" I see poetry as spiritual medicine. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "

" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "

Mahmoud Darwish

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

" Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" 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

" Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. "

" 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

" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "

Theodore Sturgeon

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" Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. "

" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "

Marilynne Robinson

" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "

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

" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

" Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. "

" When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. "

Daniel Woodrell

" Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. "

Lucille Clifton

" I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. "