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It's not easy to define poetry.


Bob Dylan
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I love to write poetry.


Shayne Ward
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Poetry lies its way to the truth.


John Ciardi
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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.


Paul Muldoon
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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For better or worse, poetry is my life.


Donald Hall
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.


Wale
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.


Seamus Heaney
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I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.


Anthony Hopkins
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.


Federico Fellini
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.


Alfred Edward Housman
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.


Jorge Luis Borges
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.


Elizabeth Edwards
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.


Tahar Ben Jelloun
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.


Joseph Joubert
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.


Naveen Andrews
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.


Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.


Miranda Seymour
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.


Wallace Stevens
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Mark Strand
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.


Thomas Hardy
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.


Ed Westwick
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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.


Vincent Van Gogh
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler
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Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
Nikki Giovanni
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Barry Eisler
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
Khaled Hosseini
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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
Jane Campion
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Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Donald Hall
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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Allen Tate
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It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
Tomas Transtromer
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Sylvia Plath
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver
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I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
John Ashbery
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