Quote by Marianne Moore
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no

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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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing. – Fernand Leger

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. – Raoul Vaneigem

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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. – Robert Creeley

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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