#poetry

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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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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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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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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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. ↗

— Peter Davison

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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

#could #happen #i #i wonder #make