Poetry Is Quotes
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Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
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The secret of poetry is cruelty.
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Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
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Poetry is a necessity of life.
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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
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The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media.
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
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I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.
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Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.
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My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
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Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
