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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
I used to joke that if acting didn’t work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Poetry’s always dead, you know? You don’t realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
Well, if this is poetry, I’m certainly never going to write any myself.
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don’t call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.