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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. - Lucil

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. – Lucille Clifton

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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and thats a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. – Lucille Clifton

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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. – Robert Morgan

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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isnt poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. – J. Milton Hayes

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Societys dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies. – Tomas Transtromer

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