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Quote by Wallace Stevens
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and r

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens

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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens

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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, its to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. – Jim Morrison

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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. – Diane Wakoski

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