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No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast res

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton

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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. – John Barton

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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. – John Barton

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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. – John Barton

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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. – Robert Morgan

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. – Rita Dove

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Lyres are placid in the hands of poets; but the true lyre is the poet himself. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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