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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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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. – Walt Whitman

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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I think thats what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. – Diane Wakoski

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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. – Stephen Spender, about Rainer Maria Rilke

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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. – Richard Dawkins

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