#poetry

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. ↗

— David Lee Roth

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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

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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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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

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The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. ↗

— Compay Segundo

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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