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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its sayi

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes,” Collected Poems of Robert Frost, 1939

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It sometimes seems to me (it is an error, I confess, but one into which I am for ever falling) that poetry is no longer anything more than an imitation of poetry… – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we dont want our lives to end. – John Barton

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