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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor… . How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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Why should poetry have to make sense? ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ↗

— Rene Char

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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. ↗

— Peter Davison

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