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Quote by Edward Dowden
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding ones own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. – Edward Dowden

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. – Edward Dowden

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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. – Robert Morgan

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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poets personality. – Mark Strand

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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. – Robert Morgan

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. – John Colville

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