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" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "
Mahmoud Darwish
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" Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. "
Mark Strand
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" Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven. "
Derek Walcott
Dead
More
Real
" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "
Robert Frost
Words
Emotion
Found
" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "
Seamus Heaney
Poetry
Bread
Break
" Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. "
Archibald MacLeish
Journalism
Poetry
Man
" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "
E. M. Forster
Objects
Touch
Poetry
" There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Song
Music
" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "
Mary Doria Russell
Poetry
Studying
City
" There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. "
Jean de la Bruyere
Painting
Music
Mediocrity
" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "
Robert Frost
Gets
Lost
Poetry
" Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. "
William Blake
Human
Poetry
Race
" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "
Paul Dirac
Poetry
Science
Way
" I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. "
Randall Jarrell
Think
Poetry
Modern
" That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Invention
Been
Epic
" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "
Mohsin Hamid
Live
Deal
Life
" If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. "
M. H. Abrams
Missed
Through
Poetry
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Story
Garden
Love
" A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional. "
Ma Yansong
Man
Spiritual
Reflection
" 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
World
Content
Ideal
" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "
Seamus Heaney
Way
Cannot
Poetry
" Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. "
Claire Tomalin
Time
Poetry
Think
" You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. "
Joseph Joubert
You
Will
Bring
" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "
Floyd Skloot
Years
Poetry
Her
" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "
Billy Collins
You
Children
Hate
" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "
K'naan
Powerful
Poetry
Pure
" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Drink
Poetry
Fountain
" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "
Andres Segovia
Guitar
Poetry
Music
" The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world. "
Derek Walcott
Love
World
Poetry
" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "
Donald Hall
Seventies
Me
Ahead
" 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
Me