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" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "

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" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "

" The moment of change is the only poem. "

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

" 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. "

" There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. "

" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "

" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "

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

" Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. "

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

" Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "

Anatole Broyard

" There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen. "

" Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' "

Mahmoud Darwish

" Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. "

" I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. "

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

" Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. "

" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "

" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "

" I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain. "

" Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. "

" I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. "

Rick Springfield

" Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. "

" When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. "

John F. Kennedy

" I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender. "

" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "

" If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history. "

" This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. "

Eugenio Montale