#poe

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. ↗

— Samuel Prout

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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. ↗

— Gilda Radner

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