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" That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means. "

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" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "

J. Courtney Sullivan

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" I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "

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

" Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. "

" Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. "

" Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

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

" Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. "

" I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. "

" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "

" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "

" Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. "

" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "

" Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. "

" If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. "

" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "

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

" I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. "

" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "

" Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. "

" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "

Stephen Spender

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" There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it. "

" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "

" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "

" Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. "

" 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. "

" As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. "

" The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. "

" I would sing the blues if I had the blues. "