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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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We dont attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. – James Laughlin

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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. – Wislawa Szymborska

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“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

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Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her. – David Lehman

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