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" Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. "

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" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "

" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

" I like poems that are little games. "

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

" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "

J. Courtney Sullivan

" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "

" A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious. "

" It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. "

" If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "

" The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. "

" You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. "

Stephane Mallarme

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

" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "

Alice McDermott

" Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. "

" Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road. "

Sturgill Simpson

" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "

" When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing. I was so cute and stupid! The admissions committee at Pitt decided to put me in poetry. "

" I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. "

" I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. "

Randall Jarrell

" Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. "

" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "

Carol Ann Duffy

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

" The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose. "

" I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. "

" 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. "

" I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. "

" But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. "

" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "