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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. – Archibald MacLeish

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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. – Archibald MacLeish

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Its like I understand images and some people understand poetry. – Samantha Morton

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. – John C. Ransom

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