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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thun

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. – Randall Jarrell

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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals cant read any poetry. – Randall Jarrell

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

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I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world. – Kenneth Koch

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Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray

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