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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, every

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. – Carol Ann Duffy

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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. – Anne Stevenson

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[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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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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The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet. – Author Unknown

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