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I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Chang-Rae Lee
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No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it. E. W. Howe
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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. Andrew Motion
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. Seamus Heaney
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Poetry is more a threshold than a path. Seamus Heaney
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. Seamus Heaney
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. Seamus Heaney
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We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. Seamus Heaney
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I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. Edward Hirsch
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I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. Edward Hirsch
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As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations. Edward Hirsch
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous Galway Kinnell
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. Claude Monet
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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. Ed Westwick
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Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. Franz Wright
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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Rene Char
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But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love. William Shakespeare
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But I was a poet before I was an actor. Casper Dien
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. A. E. Housman
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Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
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Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. Edward Hirsch
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Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people. Dave Evans
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Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. Edward Hirsch
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Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. Robert Pinsky
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Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. Edward Hirsch
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Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. Juan Felipe Herrera
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Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? Octavio Paz
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Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow
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As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to. Philip Schultz
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My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well. Jess Walter