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" Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. "
James Broughton
Poetry
Being
Years
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" Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. "
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" Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama. "
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" What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' "
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" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "
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" 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. "
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" If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. "
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Cannot
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" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "
Seamus Heaney
Ireland
Used
Northern Ireland
" Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. "
John Masefield
Become
Printing
Poetry
" Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. "
John Berger
Way
Become
Connection
" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "
Theodore Sturgeon
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Poetry
Limits
" 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. "
Jerry Spinelli
Short
Football
Game
" I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. "
Bindi Irwin
Tea
Old People
People
" I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. "
Russell Simmons
Want
Words
You
" Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. "
David Hockney
Poetry
Craft
You
" Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. "
Daisaku Ikeda
Poetry
Universe
Born
" Poetry is meant to be heard. "
Mary Oliver
Heard
Poetry
Meant
" There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. "
Derek Walcott
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Time
Always
" I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry. "
Mohit Chauhan
Poetry
Writing
Used
" I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. "
Maya Angelou
Blues
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" Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos. "
Rupi Kaur
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Look
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Man
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Joshua Sasse
Life
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Big
" Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
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Personal
" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "
Seamus Heaney
Expectation
Said
Political
" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "
Joy Harjo
Live
You
Poetry
" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cheese
Subject
" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "
Robert Frost
Wrong
Begins
Lump
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Howard Nemerov
Way
Said
Poetry