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" 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. "

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" It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. "

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

" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "

" I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. "

" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "

" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "

Edgar Allan Poe

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" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "

" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "

" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "

" If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. "

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

" I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. "

" 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. "

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

" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "

" While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. "

" Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. "

" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "

" However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. "

" Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. "

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

" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "

" I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. "

" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "

Rupi Kaur

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" The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. "

" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "

" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "

" Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. "

" Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. "