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" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "

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" I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. "

Paul Auster

Paris

Poetry

Breathing

" To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. "

" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "

" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "

" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

Prose

Walks

" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung. "

" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Metaphor

Slang

Poetry

" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

" Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. "

" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "

" The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. "

" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "

Alice Walker

Great

Muse

" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "

" In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all. "

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

" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "

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

" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "

" Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. "

" Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. "

Muriel Rukeyser

Experience

Poetry

" James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly. "

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

" Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. "

" America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? "

" I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "

" I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to. "

Tracy K. Smith

Day

Poetry

" The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. "

Seamus Heaney

Beyond

I Am

" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "