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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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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”— W. H. Auden
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“My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.”— Guy Johnson
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“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”— W. H. Auden
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“In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.”— Lawrence Summers
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“The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.”— Robert Morgan
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“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.”— Salvatore Quasimodo
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“Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.”— John Barton
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“A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.”— Anne Stevenson
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“Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.”— Marilyn Hacker
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“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”— Jean Cocteau
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“God is the perfect poet.”— Robert Browning
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“Love is the poetry of the senses.”— Honore de Balzac
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“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”— Thomas Gray
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“We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”— John Fowles
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“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.”— Philip Levine
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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”— Novalis
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“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”— A. E. Housman
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“I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.”— Eminem
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“As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.”— Jhene Aiko
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“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”— Lionel Trilling
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“Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.”— Charles Simic
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“You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.”— Charles Olson
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“It's not easy to define poetry.”— Bob Dylan
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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”— Marianne Moore