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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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Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. – Robinson Jeffers

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I dont see how poetry can ever be easy… Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it. – Edward Abbey

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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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Then, in what beauteous dress will Poetry oft clothe or decorate what in Prose is but too frequently flat and commonplace. – Frederick Hinde, Poetry, a lecture delivered in London on the evening of April 8

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