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" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. "

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" The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. "

" A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. "

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "

" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "

" Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. "

" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "

" The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. "

Lionel Trilling

" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "

" 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. "

" Superstition is the poetry of life. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "

" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "

" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "

" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "

" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "

Mary Doria Russell

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and strangers. And we lead our industry. "

Robin S. Sharma

" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "

" Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. "

James Martineau

" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "

" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "

" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

" Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. "

Robert Fitzgerald

" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "

Marilynne Robinson

" I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. "

" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "

" More modern poetry is written than read. "