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"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"
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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."
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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."
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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."
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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."
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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
Art
"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
Reading
"An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive."
Poetry
"Reading should be a repeat performance."
Reading
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
Emotional
"A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate."
Society
"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
Experience
"The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions."
Challenge
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
Theory
"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like."
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