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" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "

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" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "

" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "

" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "

" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "

" This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? "

" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "

" 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

" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "

" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "

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

" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "

" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "

" 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 know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. "

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

" Money is a kind of poetry. "

Wallace Stevens

" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "

" When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. "

" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "

" More modern poetry is written than read. "

" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "

" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "

" Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. "

" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "

Norman O. Brown

" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "

" If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. "

" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "