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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

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I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' ↗

— Jewel

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Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. ↗

— Jewel

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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. ↗

— Allen Tate

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