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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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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

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Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think its harder to write. Its harder to keep the respect of the reader too. – George Murray

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. – Robert Morgan

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