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Poetry is all nouns and verbs. - Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. – Marianne Moore

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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. – Marianne Moore

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. – Carol Ann Duffy

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It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. – Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), “Be Drunken,” translated from French by Arthur

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