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Quote by Diane Ackerman
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language,

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. – Thom Gunn

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. – George William Curtis

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky

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