#poetry

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. ↗

— Reynolds Price

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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. ↗

— Colin Quinn

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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? ↗

— John C. Ransom

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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

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