Quote by Dennis Potter
Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop

Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter

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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter

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Knowledge
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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in ones own imagination. – Dennis Potter

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Imagination
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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? – Dennis Potter

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Poetry
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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. – James Dickey

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Poetry

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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Poetry

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison

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Poetry
[T]rue poets… can pierce through the clouds to the light, and save the purity of their inspiration from the general disorder. It is refreshing to read them, delightful to steep ourselves in their truthful poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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People say the Lost Generation in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost. – Corey Stoll

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Ignorance is no excuse, its the real thing. – Irene Peter

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