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"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."
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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
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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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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
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"And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge when the day was done,/ And the new morn she saw not: but in peace/ Hung over her sweet basil evermore,/ And moisten'd it with tears unto the core."
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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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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."
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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."
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"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."
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"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."
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"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."
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"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."
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"A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be."
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"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."
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"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."
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"Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."
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"From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose."
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"A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art."
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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."
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