"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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"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."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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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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"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."

Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

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

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"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."

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"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."

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