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The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they cant understand it or that it will be boring. – Caroline Kennedy

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In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. Theyre short, theyre intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. – Caroline Kennedy

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After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. – Caroline Kennedy

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. – Paul Muldoon

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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