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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow. ↗

— Martin Gore

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. ↗

— June Jordan

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Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. ↗

— Stephen King

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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

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