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“I believe there is nothing that our better nature needs more absolutely than music, no other art of perfection possesses that strange power of…

— Pauline Decaradeuc Heyward

The thing about the poetry is that, because of the way it started, it was always something on the side. There's nobody more surprised…

— Tim Key

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

— Billy Collins

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

— Max Beerbohm

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

I was doing a poetry thing in Tottenham and I remember walking down this road looking for the address, the pub where it was…

— Tim Key

“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language”

— Jack Spicer

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

— Roberto Bolaño

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God…

— Philip James Bailey

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

— Philip Levine

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

— Seamus Heaney