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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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Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together. – Nikki Giovanni

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. – Shelby Foote

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. – Marilyn Hacker

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