"I have nothing to say, I am saying…" — John Cage

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• Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
• Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature… — Aristotle
• I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until… — Paul Auster
• I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary… — Paul Auster
• If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
• Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
• I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
• But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed… — Chinua Achebe
• I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words… — Margaret Atwood
• The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think… — Margaret Atwood
• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden

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