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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
Carl Sandburg
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American Poet Poetry
William Butler Yeats
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
William Butler Yeats
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Irish Poet Poetry
Samuel Coleridge
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order"
Samuel Coleridge
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Poetry
John Keats
"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
John Keats
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English Poet Poetry
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"I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat"
Alfred Housman
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Poetry
John Ashbery
"I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
John Ashbery
Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbery
American Poet Poetry

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John Ruskin
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."
John Ruskin
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English Writer Poetry
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"I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... And think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries... Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences ..."
Allen Ginsberg
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Poetry
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"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table."
Paul Auster
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American Author Poetry
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"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."
Marianne Moore
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American Poet Poetry
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"The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets."
Plato
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Poetry
Robert Frost
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
Robert Frost
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American Poet Poetry
Robert Frost
"Writing a poem is discovering"
Robert Frost
Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
Poetry
William Faulkner
"I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing."
William Faulkner
Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
Poetry
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"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words."
Anatole Broyard
American Critic Poetry

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