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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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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens

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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. – Rick Springfield

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In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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I didnt want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. – Tom Wesselmann

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