#poetry

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. ↗

— Robert Adamson

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Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. ↗

— Robert Adamson

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ↗

— Robert Graves

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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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