"It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right."
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"Poetry is prose in slow motion."
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"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."
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"I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say."
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"Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not."
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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
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"Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it."
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"The truest poetry is the most feigning."
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"Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum."
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"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
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"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
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"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
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"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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"Poetry is a big space and I love it."
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"Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you"
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"The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality."
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"Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were"
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"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"
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"Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences."
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"Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us."
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