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" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "

William Rose Benet

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" Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. "

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" All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed. "

" There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. "

" The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. "

" Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. "

" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "

" In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. "

" I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung. "

" Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. "

Mary Pope Osborne

" I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting. "

Gabrielle Aplin

" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "

" Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. "

" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "

Bernardo Bertolucci

" In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. "

" All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

" Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos. "

" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "

Sebastian Lelio

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

" I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. "

" I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. "

" Poetry is life distilled. "

Gwendolyn Brooks

" 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. "

" 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. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "

William Wordsworth

" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "

Stephen Greenblatt

" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "