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" We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. "

Elvis Costello

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" Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. "

Muriel Rukeyser

Experience

Poetry

" Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. "

" I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet. "

" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "

" One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. "

" 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. "

" But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve. "

" Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime. "

" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "

" Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. "

" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "

" The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. "

" Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. "

" You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. "

" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "

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

" 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. "

" The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "

Frederick William Robertson

Poetry

Think

Make

" Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives. "

" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. "

" I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. "

" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "

" If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. "

" Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. "

" I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. "

Sasha Grey

Writing

Poetry

" Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. "

" It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down. "

" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "