Quote by Karl Shapiro
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, b

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. – Karl Shapiro

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But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep. – Karl Shapiro

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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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Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone elses poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because youre too awkward to do it. – John Cusack

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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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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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