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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with. P. J. O'Rourke

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When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing. Jose Feliciano

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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. Maya Angelou

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When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. Tom Stoppard

Poetry He Said His Chamber Gas Jew Save

My childhood was all about going to church, singing in church. And later on, after I got a little older, my mother taught me how to do poems for Easter and Mother's Day, recitals and so on. I got attached to that, so as I got older and older, I began to recite poetry. Rudy Ray Moore

Around 10 years old I started being into church and being around the church. I started doing poetry - I was doing all clean poetry, totally clean. Cupcakke

Old Church Totally Poetry Clean Around Doing Years Being Started

I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when I sit down to read some poetry, I usually read more contemporary stuff. Samuel Ervin Beam

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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. Umberto Eco

Love Writing Poet Poetry Write He Remembers Incapable

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

Pure Poetry Powerful Up Intense Form Grew Really

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. Douglas Coupland

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I love romantic poetry. Richard Dawkins

Love I Love Poetry Romantic

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. Jean Cocteau

Invent Poet Poetry He Listens

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. Octavio Paz

Eyes Our Ears See Poem Poetry Read Hear

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. Ivan Turgenev

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Every single soul is a poem. Michael Franti

Soul Single Every Poem Poetry Single Soul

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles

Words Poems Poetry Poets Write Simply Who

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin

Despair Born Poem Poetry Disillusionment Novel

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. Henry Austin Dobson

Poetry Sonnet Ode Intended Turned

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. Robert Penn Warren

Life Man Light Myth See Poem Rather Poetry Making End May In The End Which Little Capacity Meaningful Thing

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. Charles Simic

Enough Sew Poem Poetry Blanket Wanted Swift Needle

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson

You Word Slowly Poems Poetry Bears Weight Read Quite Each

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler

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