#poetry

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. ↗

— Danielle Steel

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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