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" There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. "

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" 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

" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "

" What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories. "

" 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

" However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. "

" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "

" The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. "

" The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing. "

" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

" Dancing is the poetry of the foot. "

" I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself. "

" Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. "

" My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty. "

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

Albert Einstein

" I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. "

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "

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

William Butler Yeats

" A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" 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. "

" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "

" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "

" My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is. "

" There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. "

Khaled Hosseini

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

" Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. "

Abbas Kiarostami

" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "

William C. Bryant

" Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "

" I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad. "

" Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. "