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" Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. "

Robert Fitzgerald

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" I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. "

" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "

Wallace Stevens

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" You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. "

" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "

Bernardo Bertolucci

" Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. "

" Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. "

" One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. "

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Robert Fitzgerald

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