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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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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. – Walt Whitman

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. – Walt Whitman

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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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Poetry

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

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Its always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. – Carol Ann Duffy

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