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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. Judy Collins | top
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But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. Peter Davison | top
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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. James Dickey | top
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson | top
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. Gustave Flaubert | top
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The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. Theophile Gautier | top
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. Franz Grillparzer | top
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Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. Lafcadio Hearn | top
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Poets wish to profit or to please. Horace | top
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My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. Guy Johnson | top
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I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them. Kenneth Koch | top
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But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. Philip Levine | top
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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. Gyorgy Ligeti | top
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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. Roger McGough | top
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. Robert Morgan | top
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Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. John C. Ransom | top
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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. Carl Sandburg | top
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg | top
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Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? Franz Schubert | top
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. J. G. Stedman | top
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A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. Gustav Stresemann | top
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I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. Jean Toomer | top
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The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. Lionel Trilling | top
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. Alfred de Vigny | top
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It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self. Richard Wilbur | top
