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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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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. ↗

— David Duchovny

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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

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