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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This m

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. – John Barton

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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. – John Barton

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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we dont want our lives to end. – John Barton

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My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. – William Shenstone

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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and its another world. Its filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people. – Flea

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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