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" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

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" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" When we build, let us think that we build for ever. "

" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "

" The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. "

" The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. "

" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "

" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "

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

Muriel Rukeyser

" I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting. "

Gabrielle Aplin

" Dancing is the poetry of the foot. "

" 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

" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "

" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "

" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

" You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. "

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

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. "

" 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. "

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. "

" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "

" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "

William Hazlitt

" I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it on any given day or night. You just have to know where to look. "

" The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. "

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

Juan Felipe Herrera

" 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. "

William Ernest Henley

" Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. "

" Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. "

Wislawa Szymborska