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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.