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" There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. "

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" Every single soul is a poem. "

" You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap - and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and 'Heart Shaped Box' and stuff on 'In Utero' just happened that way. "

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

" Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. "

Archibald MacLeish

" I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. "

" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "

Stephen Spender

" Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos. "

" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "

" I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. "

" My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts. "

" The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it. "

" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. "

" If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.' "

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

William Hazlitt

" Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting. "

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "

" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "

" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "

" This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? "

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

" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "

" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "

" Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "

" I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. "

" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "

Norman O. Brown

" I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "

Suzan-Lori Parks