"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."

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"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."

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"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."

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"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."

Thought

"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."

History

"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."

Art

"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."

Technology

"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."

Art

"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."

Talk

"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."

Literature

"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."

Fact

"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."

Bible

"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."

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