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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
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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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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
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"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
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"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
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