If the author had said

If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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And if they havent got poetry in them, theres nothing you can do that will produce it. – Norman MacCaig

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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. – Kenneth Koch

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