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" So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. "

June Jordan

Dialogue

People

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" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Best

Poetry

" Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. "

" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "

" I like poems that are little games. "

Peter Davison

Poetry

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" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "

" For me, prose walks, poetry dances. "

James Broughton

Prose

Walks

" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Metaphor

Slang

Poetry

" Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. "

" To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. "

" The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female. "

" I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest. "

" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "

J. Carter Brown

Arts

Poetry

" Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. "

" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "

" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

Way

Art

Mean

" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "

" My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair. "

" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "

Keith Haring

Swallowed

Been

" The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational. "

" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "

" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "

" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "

" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "

" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "

" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "