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" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "

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" For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. "

" Every single soul is a poem. "

" I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "

Suzan-Lori Parks

" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "

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

" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "

" 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. "

" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "

" 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. "

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

" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "

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

Paloma Elsesser

" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "

" There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. "

" There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. "

Khaled Hosseini

" 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. "

Orson F. Whitney

" In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. "

Abbas Kiarostami

" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "

" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "

" I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. "

Henry Austin Dobson

" There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. "

" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "

" I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. "

" Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society. "

W. Bruce Cameron

" When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. "

" I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. "

" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "

" Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. "

" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "