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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ↗

— Margaret Walker

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

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Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. ↗

— Andy Richter

#briefly #considered #doing #edgar #i

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate. ↗

— James Schuyler

#artist #communicate #first #impossible #make

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ↗

— William Shenstone

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