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People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. ↗

— Rita Dove

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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. ↗

— Edward Dowden

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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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