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• Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness… — June Jordan
• All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. — Alfred Douglas
• When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics… — Marcus Mumford
• Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you… — Robert Burns
• The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is… — Amiri Baraka
• Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. — Thom Gunn
• I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some… — Marcus Mumford
• The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley
• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that… — Ezra Pound
• Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why… — David Whyte
• Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell
• There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare

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