Quote by Lucille Clifton
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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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. – Adrian Mitchell

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Wine is bottled poetry. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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