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Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, a

Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — the vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we pick up the feather it becomes our poetry. – Terri Guillemets

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The year is 2006. The world has changed in about 364 significant ways since you started reading this sentence. – Terri Guillemets

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Theres not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. – Anthony Hecht

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I dont know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. – Zona Gale

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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldnt call myself a poet. – David Duchovny

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say theyre saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews

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