One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. – Voltaire
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau
On the other hand, if theres an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. Ive lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. – Richard Serra
The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)
You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you cant concentrate on any of those things. Youve got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus. – Michael Kiwanuka
