Poetry Quote by X.J. Kennedy Download Open image ““I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.”” — X.J. Kennedy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
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“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.” — Len Jenkin Copy Share Image
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You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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