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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… — Tracy K. Smith
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, -… — Marsilio Ficino
Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth. — Khalil Gibran
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I… — Marcus Mumford
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself… — Mark Strand
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. — Gaston Bachelard
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. — Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were — John Donne
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is… — Jim Jarmusch
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware,… — Rollo May
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of… — Albert Camus
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality...… — E E Cummings
Poetry is the ultimate democracy. — Brendan Kennelly
Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be. — Alice Notley
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of — Tom Holt
Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space… — Unknown Author
I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach… — Arnold Adoff
Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid. — Mark Forsyth
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life. — Gregory Orr
Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light. — Gregory Orr
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune,… — Mary Karr
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy — Czeslaw Milosz
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. — Jack Prelutsky
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it. — Andrei Voznesensky

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