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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and th

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. – Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985

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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but its not. – Kenneth Koch

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. – Lynda Barry

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