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"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
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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 crown of literature is poetry."
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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
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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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"Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry."
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"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
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"There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends."
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"I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world."
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"I don't like writing essays or theory."
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"I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me."
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"I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll."
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"Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative."
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