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Quote by John Masefield
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few. – John Masefield

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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