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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in few

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. – Voltaire

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. – Danielle Steel

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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poets language at that point in history, and so its even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. – Diane Wakoski

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