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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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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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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry. ↗

— Samantha Morton

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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. ↗

— George Murray

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