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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. ↗

— Barbara Walters

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The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. ↗

— Roger Waters

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue. ↗

— James Welch

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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. ↗

— Orson Welles

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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