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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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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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Poetry
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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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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. – Walter Jon Williams

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