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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because were not getting those things from our communities or from each other. – Naomi Klein

Id never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. Ive always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. – Simon Armitage

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who dont go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. Its always so. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals cant read any poetry. – Randall Jarrell

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. Thats the thing I really want to break into! – Frank Iero

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything Ive learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novels length, satisfies the reader. – Ron Rash

All the modern verse plays, theyre terrible theyre mostly about the poetry. Its more important that the play is first. – Denis Johnson

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now Ill be more contented working in an office than ever before. – Hart Crane

Societys dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies. – Tomas Transtromer

Poetry says the things that I cant say. I read a lot, but I never write it. – Trevor McDonald

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits Ive managed to grow out of. – Tom Holt

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because youve done a comedy performance but because youre talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. – Roger McGough

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you dont have to tell anyone youre doing it. – Roger McGough

Well, if this is poetry, Im certainly never going to write any myself. – James Schuyler

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and its another world. Its filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people. – Flea

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its makers background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch

One of the things Ive always liked about my husband is hes very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so hes very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. – Ally Condie

Well, I like to write poetry. Im a published poet. – Misha Collins

Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say 65-66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that. – Robert Adamson

Theres one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. – Robert Adamson