Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges
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I am grateful for – though I cant keep up with – the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. – A. R. Ammons
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there – not because youve done a comedy performance but because youre talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul. – Roger McGough
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I dont have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
