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• Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.

  Joan Larkin

  Roots, Tree, Branches

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.

  Gregory Orr

  Light, Labyrinth, Despair

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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• I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Philosophy, Contradiction, Form

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• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Needs, Way, Mines

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• Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
  and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

  Sidney Lanier

  Heart, Names, Needs

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

  Andrei Voznesensky

  Believe, Ifs

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• I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

  David Biespiel

  Long, Cynicism, Mess

  "David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Cynicism Of Mark Edmundson, Or Poetry Is Still Not Dead" by David Biespiel, therumpus.net. June 21, 2013.

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• In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

  Forrest Gander

  Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

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• Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

  Anna Kamienska

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• Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

  Wallace Stevens

  World, Response

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.13, Knopf

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• In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Darkness, Stills

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• Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

  Jean Cocteau

  Born, Loses

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• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

  Diane Wakoski

  Power, Feminist, Political

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• Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

  Diane Wakoski

  Race, Landscape, Sometimes

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• But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, Events, Use

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• High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

  Diane Wakoski

  Art, Together, Culture

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• Poetry is the memory of language

  Jacques Roubaud

  Memories, Language

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• I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

  Saul Williams

  Thinking, Doe, Oral Tradition

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• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Meaningful, Perspective, Poetry

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• The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Poetry

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• Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Religious, Real, Healing

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• Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.

  John Updike

  Writing, People, Personality

  "Remembering John Updike, Literary Legend". www.npr.org. January 28, 2009.

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• Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

  Masiela Lusha

  Kissing, Mind, Lyrical

  ""Masiela's Musings" by Gina LaGuardia". College Bound Teen, October 2004.

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• Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

  Gunter Brus

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Günter Brus, Monika Faber, Actar, 2005.

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