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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges

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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. – Mark Strand

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The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just whats in your heart. – Carol Ann Duffy

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