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" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

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" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "

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" My work should be seen as poetry. "

" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "

" Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. "

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

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" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "

" I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. "

" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. "

" One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. "

" The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. "

" If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. "

" I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. "

Boris Pasternak

" Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. "

" In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! "

" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "

" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "

" I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too. "

" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "

" Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. "

" Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. "

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" Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. "

" 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. "

" The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. "

" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "

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" I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. "

" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "

" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "