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

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" 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. "

" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "

" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "

" Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. "

Gustave Flaubert

" One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany. "

" Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. "

" 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. "

" So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. "

" Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. "

" The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose. "

" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. "

" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "

" To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry. "

" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "

Robert Penn Warren

" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "

Stephen Spender

" Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. "

" I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. "

" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "

" I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words. "

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

" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "

William Hazlitt

" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "

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

" Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield. "

" 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

" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "

" I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. "

" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "