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" Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man’s life if he has the weight and cares about the words. " - Archibald MacLeish

" My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice or gender empowerment, he spoke through his poetry. " - Shabana Azmi

" A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. " - Wallace Stevens

" And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. " - Stephen King

" So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. " - Thomas Lynch

" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. " - Derek Walcott

" I’ve been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. " - Clint Smith

" I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. " - Allen Tate

" Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since. " - James Fenton

" Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like ‘Kaddish’ and ‘Howl,’ you can hear a cantor between the lines. It’s fully alive, and I think that’s what’s missing in modern poetry. It’s too dry and cerebral. " - Derek Walcott