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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you ha

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. – M. H. Abrams

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All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I dont have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Ive written some poetry I dont understand myself. – Carl Sandburg

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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding

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