Quote by Walt Whitman
To have great poets there must be great audiences too. - Walt Whit

To have great poets there must be great audiences too. – Walt Whitman

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Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. – Walt Whitman

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just dont say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. – James Laughlin

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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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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. – Eugenio Montale

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