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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

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

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Anthony Hecht

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Archibald MacLeish

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Azar Nafisi

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Bob Dylan

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Carl Sandburg

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Douglas Dunn

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Eugenio Montale

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Eugenio Montale

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

F. Sionil Jose

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

Franz Wright

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

John Donne

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

James Joyce

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Jack Prelutsky

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Maya Angelou

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Maya Angelou

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

Marilynne Robinson

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser