#poetry

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. ↗

— June Jordan

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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

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I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. ↗

— John F. Kerry

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

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Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#every #i #into #me #myself

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

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