Quote by John Cage
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. - J

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. – John Cage

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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. – John Cage

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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison

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Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

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