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Quote by Edith Sitwell
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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And if they havent got poetry in them, theres nothing you can do that will produce it. – Norman MacCaig

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All the modern verse plays, theyre terrible theyre mostly about the poetry. Its more important that the play is first. – Denis Johnson

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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