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" When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice. "

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" The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. "

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" Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! "

" Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "

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" I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. "

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

Stephane Mallarme

" When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else. "

" 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. "

" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "

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" Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. "

" I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. "

" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

" Poetry is meant to be heard. "

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" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "

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" I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. "