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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. – Henry R. Luce

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich

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