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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. - Th

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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I never think about poetry except when Im writing it. I mean my poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry says the things that I cant say. I read a lot, but I never write it. – Trevor McDonald

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If we ask a vague question, such as, What is poetry? we expect a vague answer, such as, Poetry is the music of words, or Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder. – A. R. Ammons

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