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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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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Id always loved poetry and Id always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadnt thought of putting the two together until around that time. – Bruce Cockburn

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Societys dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies. – Tomas Transtromer

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Well, if this is poetry, Im certainly never going to write any myself. – James Schuyler

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