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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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All those authors there, most of whom of course Ive never met. Thats the poetry side, thats the prose side, thats the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that youve enjoyed. – Norman MacCaig

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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