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" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "

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" Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! "

" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "

" I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish. "

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

William Wordsworth

" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "

" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "

" I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. "

Natasha Trethewey

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

" 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. "

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

Lionel Trilling

" 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

" The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. "

Orson F. Whitney

" Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' "

" When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. "

" We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. "

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" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "

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

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" The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. "

" I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. "

" My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. "

" I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper. "

" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "

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" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "

" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "

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" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "