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title: "4 Poetry Place Quotes by 4 authors"
description: "Browse 4 Poetry Place quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Poetry Place sayings and thoughts."
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> [Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/television-excites-me-because-it-seems-to-be-the-last-stamping-ground/)

[Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adc/ben-hecht-8979_excites_television-excites-me-because-it-seems-t_482168.png)

> [Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-moore/poetry-a-place-for-the-genuine-hands-that-can-grasp-eyes-that-can/)

[Marianne Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-moore/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/213/marianne-moore-3315_eye_poetry-a-place-for-the-genuine-hands-tha_1215232.png)

> [So you have in Iraq some people falling prey to the system, some people managing to negotiate independence, and other people becoming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-colla/so-you-have-in-iraq-some-people-falling-prey-to-the-system-some/)

[Elliott Colla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-colla/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2c/elliott-colla-15941_dying_so-you-have-in-iraq-some-people-falling_2027786.jpg)

> [Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/poetry-is-the-one-place-where-people-can-speak-their-original-human/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/857/allen-ginsberg-1110_art_poetry-is-the-one-place-where-people-can_2875953.jpg)

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