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" You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. "

Carol Ann Duffy

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" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "

" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "

" The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. "

" Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. "

Wallace Stevens

" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "

" You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. "

" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "

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

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

William Rose Benet

" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. "

" 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. "

" The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. "

Robert Penn Warren

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

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

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. "

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

" In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. "

" Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. "

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

" Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. "

" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "

" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "

" I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world. "

Earl Sweatshirt

" The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. "

Khaled Hosseini

" The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far. "

Robert Schumann

" Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold. "

" Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? "

" I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" 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. "