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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes th

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I used to joke that if acting didnt work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. – Merritt Wever

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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

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Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. – David Hunt

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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but its not. – Kenneth Koch

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