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" Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. "

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" I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. "

" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "

" I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "

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" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "

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" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "

" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

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" 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. "

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" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "

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" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. "

" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "

Sturgill Simpson

" Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides. "

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

" We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. "

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

" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "

" I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. "

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

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

" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "

" 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. "

" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "

" I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. "

" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "

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" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "

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

" What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' "

" I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. "

" That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. "

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