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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.