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• For me, poetry is always a search for order.

  Elizabeth Jennings

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• Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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• Poetry…is capable of saving us; it is a perfectly possible means of overcoming chaos.

  I. A. Richards

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• Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

  Iain Crichton Smith

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• Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

  John Barrington Wain

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• A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

  C. Day Lewis

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• Poetry is more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

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• Poetry is telling something to someone.

  Marie Howe

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

  June Jordan

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• From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour’s wife.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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• Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

  Irving Stone

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• Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

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• Anything is good material for poetry. Anything.

  William Carlos Williams

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• Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere

  James Martineau

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• Loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside … but from there you can see the stars.

  John Geddes

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• Words are so strong and I am so timid my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint.

  John Geddes

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• Your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I’m always turning over.

  John Geddes

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• Who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children’s eyes…?

  John Geddes

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