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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A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. – Thomas Harrison

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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. – Alfred Douglas

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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. – George Oppen

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On the other hand, if theres an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. Ive lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. – Richard Serra

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