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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
Patti Smith
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Jim Jarmusch
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
Aaron Neville
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine
The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
George Murray
To me fair friend, you can never be old for as you when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
John Betjeman
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Basil Bunting
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Callan McAuliffe
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.
John Drinkwater
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
Simon Armitage
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
Oscar Wilde
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
Bobby McFerrin
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
W. H. Auden
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Philip Levine
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
Wallace Stevens
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I
Harold Bloom
