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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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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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Poetry is a sort of homecoming. – Paul Celan

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In many cases these verses will seem to the reader like poetry torn up by the roots, with rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and a fragrance not otherwise to be conveyed. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Preface to Poems by Emily Dickinson Edited by Two of

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. – Elizabeth Edwards

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