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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

— Michael Tippett

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

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

— Steve Earle

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

— Peleg Top

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

— David Knopfler

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

— Sylvia Plath

✗Opposing Perspectives

What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.

— Carrie Fisher