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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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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend ones language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. – W. H. Auden

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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A poem can have an impact, but you cant expect an audience to understand all the nuances. – Douglas Dunn

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

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