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"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army."
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John Ashbery
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Poetry and Poets
"Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying."
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W. H. Auden
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"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body."
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Francis Bacon
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Poetry and Poets
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
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Charles Baudelaire
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Poetry and Poets
"Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind."
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Maxwell Bodenheim
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Poetry and Poets
"If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion."
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Joseph Brodsky
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Poetry and Poets
"Poetry is life distilled."
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poetry and Poets
"As to "Don Juan," confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?"
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Lord Byron
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Poetry and Poets
"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."
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Charles Churchill
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Poetry and Poets
"Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically."
Author:
Jean Cocteau
Category:
Poetry and Poets
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