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" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "

Vanessa Redgrave

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" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "

" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "

" 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

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

" I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. "

Jacques Derrida

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "

Albert Einstein

" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

J. Carter Brown

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

" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "

Alice McDermott

" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "

" Why should poetry have to make sense? "

Charlie Chaplin

" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "

" 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. "

" Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. "

" A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. "

" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" In my early days, I auditioned a lot. Mostly, I didn't get anywhere. "

Vanessa Redgrave

" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "

" The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry. "

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

" I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...' "

" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "

" Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. "

" My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore. "

Vanessa Redgrave

" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "

" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "

" Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. "

" I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. "

Gail Carson Levine