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" Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. "

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" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. "

" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "

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" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "

" We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. "

" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "

" The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading. "

" 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. "

" There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. "

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

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" To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. "

" You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. "

Stephane Mallarme

" Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. "

" I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. "

Natasha Trethewey

" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "

" I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish. "

" Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. "

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

" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "

William Shenstone

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

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

" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "

" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "

" My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. "

" To love another person is to see the face of God. "

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" I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them. "