"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."

Poetry, Memory, Quantity

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"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."

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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

Nathalie Sarraute, Russian Lawyer

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

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"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

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"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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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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"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

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"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

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"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

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"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

Allen Tate, American Poet

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"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."

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"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."

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"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries."

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"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."

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"Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs."

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"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."

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