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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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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – Don Marquis

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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. – Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957

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My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. – Philip Levine

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. – Eugenio Montale

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If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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