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" There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. "

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" As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. "

Goldwin Smith

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

" It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it needs to be able to do, but what it can do. "

" I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. "

" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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" Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. "

" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "

" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "

" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "

Helen Thomas

" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "

" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "

" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

" I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

" I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. "

" Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. "

" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "

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

" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "

" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "

" You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. "

" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "

" Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. "

" The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female. "