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Poetry is all nouns and verbs. - Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. – Marianne Moore

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If you dont mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and theres no poetry in that. – Glen Hansard

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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. – Robert Penn Warren

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I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. – Robert Morgan

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I certainly cant speak for all cultures or all societies, but its clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. Its not part of the cultural mainstream. – Mark Strand

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

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Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. – Wislawa Szymborska

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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. – Peter De Vries

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I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people. – Jim Wallis

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