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Quote by Wallace Stevens
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens

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Weakness
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Wallace Stevens
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Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say 65-66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that. – Robert Adamson

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Poetry

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. – James Dickey

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Poetry

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry

Im not a great poetry fan. – Rupert Everett

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Poetry

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