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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. ↗

— Mark Strand

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I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. ↗

— David Hare

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. ↗

— Alfred Edward Housman

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. ↗

— John Colville

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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