"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."

Poetry, Effect, World

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"If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect."

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

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"I feel very connected to poets across the country."

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"My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end."

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"The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight."

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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

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"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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"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."

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"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."

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"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"

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"Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses."

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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."

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