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• Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

  William Butler Yeats

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• Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Always learn poems by heart,’ she said. ‘They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay.

  Janet Fitch

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• The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

  Muriel Rukeyser

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• Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

  Helen Keller

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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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• Poetry isn’t like any writing I’ve ever heard before. I don’t understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.

  Lauren Oliver

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• Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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• Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

  Wallace Stevens

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• Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

  Matsuo Basho

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• For instance, it’s a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

  Peter Davison

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• My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they’re embarrassed that I write it or they’re embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

  Peter Davison

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• I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

  Peter Davison

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• The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

  Peter Davison

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• Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

  Peter Davison

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• Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

  Peter Davison

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• They need to learn poetry. They don’t need to learn about poetry. They don’t need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don’t need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

  Peter Davison

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• I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn’t read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

  Peter Buell Porter

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• It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

  Peter Bichsel

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• A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

  Paul Valery

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