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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 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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Religion, you cant a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they dont believe. – Dennis Potter

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Religion
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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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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. Thats what poetry does. – Allen Ginsberg

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All those authors there, most of whom of course Ive never met. Thats the poetry side, thats the prose side, thats the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that youve enjoyed. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. – Asghar Farhadi

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Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

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