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I dont live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. -

I dont live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. – 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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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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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape? – John C. Ransom

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[P]oetry often brings consolation to the heart which prose has failed to touch… – Luigi, Sweet Songs for Mourning Mothers, 1884

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg

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