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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think pe

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

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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinsons poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. – Gordon Getty

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. – Mark Strand

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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I dont live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. – Charles Olson

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