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

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In poetry and in eloquence the beautiful and grand must spring from the commonplace…. All that remains for us is to be new while repeating the old, and to be ourselves in becoming the echo of the whole world. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. – James Tate

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I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, its just obtuse to them. Its hard to relate to. – Jewel

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. – Matthew Simpson

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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. – Howard Nemerov

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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. – Leonardo da Vinci

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It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. – Josef Albers

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