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Poetry is life distilled. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. – A. R. Ammons

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. – Robert Morgan

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