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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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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. ↗

— Laura Riding

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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Always be a poet, even in prose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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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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Why should poetry have to make sense? ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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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

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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