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

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

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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."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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

George Murray, Canadian Poet

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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."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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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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"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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"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."

Time

"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."

Art

"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."

People

"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."

Work

"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."

Woman

"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."

Literature

"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

Suspicion

"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."

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"I have never sought the reason why I write."

Reason

"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."

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