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“The poetry is myself.”

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”

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Author:Thomas Gray

“Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.”

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Author:Joan Larkin

“I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant or "sacred" to being more human, because then I think it becomes easier to feel like poetry belongs to us, is for us, is from us.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

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Author:Aaron Belz

“religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.”

Poetry Poetry Is

Book:Wormwood: A Drama of Paris

Source: Wormwood: A Drama of Paris

“I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.”

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Book:The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher

Source: The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher

“Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.”

Mind Body Poetry Poetry Is Links Connecting Mind And Body

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.”

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Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.”

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Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.”

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Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.”

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Author:Rita Dove

“Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.”

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Book:Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

“But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.”

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Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

“Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.”

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Book:A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

Source: A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation

“But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.”

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Book:The ballad and the source

Source: The ballad and the source

“The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.”

Way Humans Strong Creatures Poetry Is

Author:Stevie Smith

“I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.”

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Author:Stella Benson

“Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.”

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Author:Diane Wakoski

“The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.”

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Author:Wendy Cope

“Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?”

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Author:Kathleen Raine

“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.”

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Author:Audre Lorde

“Poetry is not a luxury.”

Luxury Poetry Is

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.”

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Author:Elizabeth Smart

“Poetry is a dangerous gift.”

Poetry Dangerous Poetry Is

Book:Home influence

Source: Home influence

“20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.”

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Author:Diane Glancy

“Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.”

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Book:Claiming Breath

Source: Claiming Breath

“Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.”

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Book:The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

“Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.”

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Book:Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...

Source: Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...

“Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.”

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Book:The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World

Source: The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World

“Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.”

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Author:Gwen Harwood

“Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.”

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Book:Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.”

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Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“The act of making poetry is an act of hope.”

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Author:Natasha Trethewey

“Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.”

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Author:Carol Muske-Dukes

“Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.”

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Author:Aaron Belz

“One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.”

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Author:Brian Evenson

“Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.”

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Author:John Updike

“Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.”

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Author:William Alfred Quayle

“Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.”

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Author:Masiela Lusha

“I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.”

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Author:Masiela Lusha

“You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.”

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Author:Jennifer Stone

“Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!”

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Author:Jennifer Stone

“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.”

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Author:Robert Graves

“Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about poetry.”

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Author:Josephine Jacobsen

“Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.”

Author:Gunter Brus