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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O lands! O all so dear to me — what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. – Walt Whitman

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Thats one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does ones little turn – that youre just part of the great crop, as it were. – Paul Muldoon

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While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin

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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its makers background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch

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I have experienced healing through other writers poetry, but theres no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, Ill write a bad poem. – Marilyn Hacker

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