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Only poetry inspires poetry.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Books," Society and Solitude (1870).)
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Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
great many kinds of poetry.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. "Poetry and Grammar," Lectures in America, Random House (1935).)
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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
(Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist. speech, Dec. 6, 1963, London School of Economics. "Mammon," Mammon and the Black Goddess (1965).)
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Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.
(Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932), British poet, author. Poems, epigraph (1964).)
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. "Names, Proper," A Certain World (1970).)
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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
(Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist. speech, Dec. 6, 1963, London School of Economics. "Mammon," Mammon and the Black Goddess (1965).)
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the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
(Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. Poetry (l. 25-28). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Idea 127 in Selected Ideas (1799-1800), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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