Quote by James Tate
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. - James Tate

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. – James Tate

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine

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I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation. – Trevor Dunn

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