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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typogr

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky

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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside. – Joseph Brodsky

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Change
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky

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Beauty
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. – Joseph Brodsky

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Exile
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Poetry
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Ive never read a political poem thats accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. – Howard Nemerov

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Poetry

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Poetry

Poetry must be made by all and not by one. – Comte de Lautreamont

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Poetry

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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Poetry

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There is great power in letting go, and there is great freedom in moving on. – Author Unknown

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I was an OK boxer, I wasnt great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours. – Liam Neeson

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You may make some mistakes – but that doesnt make you a sinner. Youve got the very nature of God on the inside of you. – Joel Osteen

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I dont like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life. – Jean Paul Gaultier

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