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• A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.

  David J. Delaney

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• Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

  C. S. Lewis

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• Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

  Erica Jong

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• A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts.  A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.

  Richelle E. Goodrich

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• Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

  William Butler Yeats

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• The trouble with the performance poets is that they don’t seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

  Peter Davison

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• The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn’t the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

  Peter Davison

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• Poetry is composing for the breath.

  Peter Davison

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• Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

  Peter Davison

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• Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one’s own understanding of how to understand the world.

  Peter Davison

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• And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

  Peter Davison

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• It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

  Aristotle

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• One of Wordsworth’s Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet’s death “I suppose his son will carry on the business.”

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