“A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.”
— Chaim Potok
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“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”
— Joseph Roux
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“Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.”
— Diane Wakoski
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“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
— Gertrude Stein
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“I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.”
— Rita Dove
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“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
— Steven Wright
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“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
— Charles Simic
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“To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.”
— Brian Harris
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“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.”
— Niels Bohr
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“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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