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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals cant read any poetry. – Randall Jarrell

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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. – Randall Jarrell

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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. – Robert Fitzgerald

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All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

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Well, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence. – Harry Mathews

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