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Quote by Martin Amis
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets m

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But its not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it Ive met, and think theyre incredibly witty, inventive – theres a lot of poetry there. – Martin Amis

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If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion. – Martin Amis

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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. – Martin Amis

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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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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. – John Cage

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard

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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. – Robert Penn Warren

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