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“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.”— Raymond Chandler
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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”— John Ruskin
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“I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.”— Jane Campion
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“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”— Jean Cocteau
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“Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.”— Samuel Prout
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“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.”— Aung San Suu Kyi
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“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”— Georges Braque
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“Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.”— Mark Strand
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“Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.”— Russell Baker
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“For me, prose walks, poetry dances.”— James Broughton
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“There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.”— Helen Thomas
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“I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.”— Norman MacCaig
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“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”— William Hazlitt
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“Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.”— Robert Morgan
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“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”— Jean Cocteau
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“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”— Wilfred Owen
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“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”— Salman Rushdie
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“Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.”— Anne Stevenson
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“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”— William Hazlitt
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“I read poetry to save time.”— Marilyn Monroe
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“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”— Don Marquis
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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”— Leonard Cohen
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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”— Charles Baudelaire
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“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”— E. M. Forster
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“It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”— John Ruskin