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Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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The poetry of a given age teaches us less what it has, than what it wants and what it loves. It is a living medal, where the concavities in the die are transformed into convexities on the bronze or gold. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. – Elia Kazan

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Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. – Marilyn Hacker

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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. – John Drinkwater

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