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" There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. "

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" In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all. "

Eugene H. Peterson

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" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "

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

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" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "

William Shenstone

" There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. "

" Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. "

" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "

" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "

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" There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. "

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" Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. "

" By all means use some time to be alone. "