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I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. - James Dick

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. – James Dickey

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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. – James Dickey

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Poetry
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. – James Dickey

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Flying
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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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Poetry

They need to learn poetry. They dont need to learn about poetry. They dont need to be told how to interpret poetry. They dont need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. – Mario Batali

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Poetry

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits Ive managed to grow out of. – Tom Holt

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Poetry

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No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and Ive done very few of those. Ive got a feeling its going to change things for me. – Helena Bonham Carter

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Books are embalmed minds. – Bovee

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We receive by faith and we keep it by faith. – Benny Hinn

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