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" I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. " - Grazia Deledda

" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. " - William Shenstone

" People think of poetry as a school subject… Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don’t have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover. " - Billy Collins

" Songs like ‘Everything To Help You Sleep’ or ‘Claws in Your Back’ took a little bit more grappling with the actual poetry for me to feel comfortable with the song. And there’s a little bit more song crafting going on, and I had a specific idea in mind of the imagery I wanted to evoke. " - Julien Baker

" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don’t have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. " - Alice McDermott

" I was an English major, and I always wrote poems. " - Mat Kearney

" People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that’s something totally different from the slow way you read something if it’s a tune; which to me a poem has to be. " - Alice Oswald

" When I write poetry, I write in torrents. I have no interest in quality or finesse, only in quantity and waste. Scribble and discard, scribble and discard. " - Tim Key

" I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. " - Jonathan Galassi

" I love Tennessee Williams; as a playwright, he’s so poetic. " - Matthew Bourne