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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it b

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. – Russell Baker

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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings. – Russell Baker

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde

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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. – Seamus Heaney

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. – Joseph Roux

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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. – Robert Creeley

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