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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I kn

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

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I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. – Andrew Motion

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I dont think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you cant teach them is the very essence of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poets perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. – John Drinkwater

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