“But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry – still.”
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
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“Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
— Don Marquis
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“Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.”
— Robert Morgan
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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.”
— Horace
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“This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.”
— Eugenio Montale
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“Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.”
— David Hunt
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“Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.”
— Marilyn Hacker
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“Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.”
— James Broughton
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“I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.”
— Howard Nemerov
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“Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.”
— Anne Stevenson
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