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" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "

Marilynne Robinson

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" Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. "

" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "

Herbert Spencer

" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "

" The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "

Frederick William Robertson

" Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. "

" I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out. "

Marilynne Robinson

" Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. "

" We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. "

" I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.' "

" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "

" I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted. "

Marilynne Robinson

" Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. "

" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. "

Archibald MacLeish

" I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. "

" Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. "

Robert W. Service

" So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. "

" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "

Robert Penn Warren

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "

" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "

Denis Villeneuve

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" The crown of literature is poetry. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. "

Mary Pope Osborne

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

" Always be a poet, even in prose. "

Charles Baudelaire

" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "

" Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. "

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