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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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People dont always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. – Caroline Kennedy

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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and Ive seen ecstasy or something. – Rita Dove

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I certainly cant speak for all cultures or all societies, but its clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. Its not part of the cultural mainstream. – Mark Strand

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. – Isaac Rosenberg

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. – Huston Smith

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