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" 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. "

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" The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it. "

" There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. "

" Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. "

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

" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "

" I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. "

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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" America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? "

" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "

" He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. "

" I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. "

" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "

" I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. "

" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

" My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. "

" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "

" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "

" I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. "

" I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. "

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" To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. "

Susan Vreeland

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" 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. "

" I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. "

" Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. "

" '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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" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "

" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "