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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery

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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. – John Ashbery

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I dont look on poetry as closed works. I feel theyre going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. – John Ashbery

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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. – Jacques Derrida

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Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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