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" Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. "

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" I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.' "

" I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. "

Carol Ann Duffy

" It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. "

" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "

William Shenstone

" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "

" If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it. "

" The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on. "

" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "

" You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. "

" Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. "

" All love comes from the family. "

" I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. "

" Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies. "

" I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me. "

" Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. "

" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "

" Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. "

" A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. "

" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "

" Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house. "

" The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing. "

" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "

" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "

Wallace Stevens

" When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice. "

" Nature refuses to rest. "

" We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. "

" Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. "

" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "

J. Courtney Sullivan

" The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational. "

" To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. "