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" The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing. "
Marcus du Sautoy
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" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "
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" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "
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" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "
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" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "
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" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "
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" My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing. "
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" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "
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" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "
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" I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. "
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" What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' "
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" Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry. "
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" Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe. "
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" The crown of literature is poetry. "
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" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "
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