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" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "
Virginia Woolf
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" Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. "
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" Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
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" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "
E. M. Forster
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" I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
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Happy
" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "
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" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "
Tom Stoppard
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" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "
Wislawa Szymborska
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" One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. "
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Engineering
" I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. "
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Musically
" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "
Edward Hirsch
Feel
Poetry
Inspire
" To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. "
Virginia Woolf
Control
Enjoy
Ourselves
" This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. "
Virginia Woolf
People
Courage
Soul
" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "
Naomi Klein
Other
Because
Things
" Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. "
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Truth
Business
" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "
Gertrude Stein
" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "
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Honey
Lips
Poetry
" You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative. "
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Colour
People
You
" 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. "
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Live
Love
Mind
" The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing. "
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Think
Writing
" 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. "
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Thought
Poetry
" Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. "
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Human
Art
Human Nature
" I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. "
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Spent
" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "
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Language
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People
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" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "
Adrienne Rich
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Power
" For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse. "
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Me
Muse
" It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. "
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Genius
Hard
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