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Quote by Robert Creeley
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that pros

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

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Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, its so grimly brutal! – Robert Creeley

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My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. – Sigmund Freud, quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. – Huston Smith

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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

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