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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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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. – Robert Morgan

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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. – Robert Penn Warren

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