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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. – A. R. Ammons

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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. – Robert Morgan

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