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" Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. "

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" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "

" 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

" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "

" I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "

" I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. "

" I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head. "

Michel Houellebecq

" 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. "

" If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. "

" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

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

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

Mahmoud Darwish

" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "

John Singer Sargent

" Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. "

" Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. "

" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. "

Stephen Sondheim

" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "

" There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry. "

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

" Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. "

" Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. "

James Martineau

" I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. "

" Always be a poet, even in prose. "

Charles Baudelaire

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

" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "

" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "

William C. Bryant

" I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world. "

Earl Sweatshirt