“Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.”
— Robert Adamson
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I did know Ted Hughes and I
“I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.”
— Anne Stevenson
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A True poet does not bother to
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”
— Jean Cocteau
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You will not find poetry anywhere unless
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
— Joseph Joubert
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
— Oscar Wilde
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Well, I had this little notion –
“Well, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.”
— Harry Mathews
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I have nothing to say, I am
“I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.”
— John Cage
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In the past, poetry came in the
“In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.”
— John Barton
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated
“For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.”
— Paul Muldoon
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling
“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.”
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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Wine is bottled poetry.
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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