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But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you…
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.
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Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.
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Human life is too difficult for people.
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I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
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I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.
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Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
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All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed…
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I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious,…
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The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach…
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The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still…
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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of…
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And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets…
— Clifton Fadiman
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Good poets borrow, great poets steal
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
— Helen Vendler
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Oh, what company good poets are!
— Jose Marti
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.…
— Christopher Logue
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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
— Nicholson Baker
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Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,…
— Paul Engle
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One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
— Umberto Eco
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I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn…
— Umberto Eco
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