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" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "

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" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

" 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. "

" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "

Romesh Gunesekera

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

" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "

" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "

" I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. "

" I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. "

" That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. "

" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "

James Fenimore Cooper

" I read poetry to save time. "

" Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. "

Muriel Rukeyser

" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "

" 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. "

" I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. "

" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "

" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "

" Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "

Anatole Broyard

" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "

" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "

" Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. "

" There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. "

" The crown of literature is poetry. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "

" I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words. "

" I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. "

" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "

" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "