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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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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesnt play, it has a poignancy to it. – Jim Jarmusch

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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

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[P]oetry… folds its wings at the rough contact of reality… it feels in one sense much more, and in another much less, than the soul engaged with reality… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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