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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. - James Dickey

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. – James Dickey

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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. – James Dickey

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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. – James Dickey

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An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. – John Barton

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In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. – Lawrence Summers

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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. – Robert Morgan

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