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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

K'naan

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Mahmoud Darwish

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

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

Mark Strand

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Oscar Wilde

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Stephen Colbert

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

Jonah Peretti

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montagu

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Octavia E. Butler

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Anne Sullivan

It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

Theodore Bikel

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Pierre de Coubertin

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

Pierre de Coubertin

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

Thomas Friedman