Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship wi

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. – Voltaire

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. – Charles Baudelaire

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