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Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

Nikki Giovanni

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

Eileen Myles

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

Kevin Powers

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Sylvia Plath

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Jim Harrison

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Eavan Boland

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Tom Hodgkinson

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