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" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "
Jim Morrison
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" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "
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" Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? "
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" The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "
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" That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means. "
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" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "
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" The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. "
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" That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. "
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" And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. "
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" Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. "
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" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "
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" I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. "
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" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "
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Anthony Hecht
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" Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
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