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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. Youll have that readership. Keep going until you know youre doing work thats worthy. And then see what happens. Thats my advice. – Philip Levine

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me its the home of the extraordinary, the only home. – Philip Levine

My art and poetry is very political now. Because youve got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen. – Jack Bowman

Thats one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does ones little turn – that youre just part of the great crop, as it were. – Paul Muldoon

I dont live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. – Charles Olson

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I cant really think of anyone whos done anything like it since. – Ray Manzarek

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasnt that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. Id already been translating French poetry, Id been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. – Paul Auster

Music is my thing. Its my thing its what I love. Its what I do. Its football to me its Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me. – Ryan Adams

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that its not all about characters, relationships and themes, its also about place and the poetry of place. Its about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. – Mike Leigh

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but its differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. – Michael Cunningham

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinsons poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. – Gordon Getty

Poetry cant cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. – Maurice Saatchi

The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

When youre looking that far out, youre giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesnt need translation. Its like poetry, it touches you. – Story Musgrave

Ive already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. – Story Musgrave

Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or whats going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Nerudas poetry. I dont actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I dont know why, but it calms me, calms my brain. – Tea Obreht

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and thats a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. – Lucille Clifton

I always liked the magic of poetry but now Im just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how theyve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. – David Knopfler

Im hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career – they are so fun and witty. – Louise Jameson