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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch bec

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. – Robert Penn Warren

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. – Huston Smith

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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. – Raoul Vaneigem

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