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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. - Don Marquis

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis

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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. – Don Marquis

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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. – Mario Cuomo

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. – T. S. Eliot

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

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. – Carl Sandburg

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