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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footn

A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. – Erik Satie

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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. – Marianne Moore

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Ive already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. – Story Musgrave

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I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless its a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl. – Jean Pigozzi

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The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons. – Imamu Amiri Baraka Jones

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