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" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "
John Ashbery
Poetry
Head
Going
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" In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. "
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" There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. "
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" When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. "
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Mark Knopfler
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" Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away. "
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" Poetry is life distilled. "
Gwendolyn Brooks
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" I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. "
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" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "
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World
Never
" Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. "
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Universe
Born
" Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. "
Herbert Spencer
Never
Know
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" The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. "
James Gates Percival
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Music
Waves
" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
Strike
Own
Poetry
" Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. "
Sarah Kay
Great
Say
Storytelling
" 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
Feel
Present
Fade
" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry
Mirror
Beautiful
" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "
Bob Dylan
Live
Myself
Poetry
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Poetry
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Tough
Society
Poetry
" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry
Paper
Alas
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Diseases
Consumption
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Watching
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Never
Poetry
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Who
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Mark Strand
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Direction
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Raymond Aubrac
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Precise
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