I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

Between Born Forests Grew

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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

Asleep Duty Felt People

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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Patti Smith

Basic Because Came Chords

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Before you came, the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Nizar Qabbani

Before Born Came Prose

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Rita Dove

Distilled Language Most Poetry

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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Rita Dove

About Because Elements Language

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Rita Dove

About Ever Gesture Good

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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

Children Come Curriculum Early

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Rita Dove

Advise Congress Distinct Duties

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand

Who draws Nobles delights Poetry

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

About Age Every Feared

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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Rita Dove

About Am Arts Federal

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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

Clouds Ecstasy Feel Me

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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore

Art Creating Gardens Imaginary

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore

Noun Poetry

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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Marianne Moore

Calling Category Except I See

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Richard Dawkins

Love Romantic Poetry

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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Robert W. Service

Any Hand Means Mother

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

Burning Evidence Just Life

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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Leonard Cohen

Group Jazz Liked Lyrics

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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Leonard Cohen

Always Call Certain Dangerous

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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Robert Schumann

Always Blend Burn Clear

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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Havelock Ellis

Thinking Lower grades Comparable Paper money

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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Leonard Cohen

Applied Back Body End

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Herbert Spencer

Never entered Poetry Surrounded

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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Lucille Clifton

Celebrate Celebrated Mistake More

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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Lucille Clifton

Just Language Life Matter

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Bottled Poetry Wine

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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Derrida

African Also Bad Even

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Against Always Apparently Artifice

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Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it

James Wright

Poetry Keep life Endure Almost anything

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Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Mario Puzo

Believe Man Truly love Woman

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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry Situation State Facing life

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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry Mathematics Rigorous relationship

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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man

Bernard Berenson

All arts Poetry Music Visible

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Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Alfred de Vigny

Poetry Disease The pain

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Poetry may help us ask questions about our own lives.

Uche Nduka

Poetry Help us Ask questions Own lives

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Who said poetry should only be a source of solace?

Uche Nduka

Who said Poetry A source Solace

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True poetry emanates from transformation.

Uche Nduka

True poetry Emanates Transformation

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Allen Ginsberg

Want People Bow Gifted

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Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

Alice Munro

Who Say Perfect Poet

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Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

Angela Carter

Reason Produce Poetry Disorder

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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

Anne Sexton

Poetry My life Postmark My hands

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Antonin Artaud

Written Poetry Reading Destroyed

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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

Arthur Rimbaud

Stronger Than alcohol Vaster Poetry

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In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.

Audre Lorde

Forefront Change Poetry Possibility

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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Audre Lorde

Poetry Way Help Name

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

Poetry Dream Vision Lives

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Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prose Words Best Order

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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life

Saul Williams

Making up Rhymes Never thought That poetry

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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

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 came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

Patti Smith

Before you came, the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Nizar Qabbani

Rita Dove

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Rita Dove

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Rita Dove

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Rita Dove

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand

Rita Dove

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Rita Dove

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore

Richard Dawkins

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Robert W. Service

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Leonard Cohen

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Leonard Cohen

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Robert Schumann

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Havelock Ellis

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

Leonard Cohen

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Herbert Spencer

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton

Robert Louis Stevenson

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Jacques Derrida

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it

James Wright

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Mario Puzo

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man

Bernard Berenson

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Alfred de Vigny

Poetry may help us ask questions about our own lives.

Uche Nduka

Who said poetry should only be a source of solace?

Uche Nduka

True poetry emanates from transformation.

Uche Nduka

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Allen Ginsberg

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?