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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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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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Ive never read a political poem thats accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. – Howard Nemerov

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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I dont think Auden liked my poetry very much, hes very Anglican. – Stevie Smith

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But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. – Diane Wakoski

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