#poe

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions. ↗

— John Barton

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Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. ↗

— John Barton

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When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ↗

— Mario Batali

#book #college #day #different #dirty

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#ceaselessly #drunk #drunken #escape #hour

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#arms #being #being human #dance #dancing

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#among #even #fact #feels #france

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#force #his #moral #objective #poet

Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#stars