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" There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. "

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" I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. "

Lisa Marie Presley

" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "

" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "

" Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral. "

" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. "

" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "

" 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. "

" I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. "

" If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. "

" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "

Wallace Stevens

" Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "

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

William Wordsworth

" Always be a poet, even in prose. "

Charles Baudelaire

" Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. "

" If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. "

" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "

" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "

" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

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

" Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour. "

Patrick Kavanagh

" How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see? "

Maria Montessori

" The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

" That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. "

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

Jorge Luis Borges