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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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In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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