"There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory."
0
"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."
0
"If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything."
0
"Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well."
1
"It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap."
2
"It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry."
2
"The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry."
2
"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."
0
"All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions."
0
"I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people."
2
"Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people."
3
"The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring."
0
"In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special."
1
"Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned."
0
"Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts."
1
"My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on other people's projects or could be pigeonholed in certain ways, that's not how I perceive myself."
0
"I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam."
1
"I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry."
3
"I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood."
1
"Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society."
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