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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poe

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we cant imagine ourselves living without. – A. R. Ammons

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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. – Paul Auster

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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. – Rick Springfield

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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