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Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. – Allen Tate

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I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. – Robert Frost, 1935

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then dont by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. – Robert W. Service

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