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" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "

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Muriel Rukeyser

" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "

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

" 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. "

" The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision. "

" Poetry is the deification of reality. "

" 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. "

" As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations. "

" The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. "

Lionel Trilling

" Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line. "

" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. "

" I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. "

" In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. "

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

" Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. "

" I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. "

" One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. "

" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "

" There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

" The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive. "

" I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung. "

" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "

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