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" We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. "

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" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "

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" If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. "

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" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "

" Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future. "

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" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

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" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination. "

" For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means. "

" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "

" 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. "

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" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

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" To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. "

" Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. "

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" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "

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" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "

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" I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences. "

" Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. "