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Quote by Anne Stevenson
I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as i

I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. – Anne Stevenson

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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

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Poetry is, first and last, language – the rest is filler. – Mark Strand

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My art and poetry is very political now. Because youve got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen. – Jack Bowman

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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. – Jacques Derrida

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