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" Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! "

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" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "

" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "

" Who loves, raves. "

" There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry. "

" I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. "

Jacques Derrida

" There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. "

" I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. "

" Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. "

" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "

Marilynne Robinson

" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

" If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "

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

" You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. "

" I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. "

" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "

" I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. "

" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "

" But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. "

" Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. "

" 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. "

" I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. "

" If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "

" I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. "

" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "

" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

" San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "

" A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. "