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You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people

You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson

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This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. – Charles Olson

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I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897, spoken b

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Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. Thats the thing I really want to break into! – Frank Iero

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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. – Allen Tate

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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