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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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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history. – 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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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. – Peter Davison

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The ugly is in poetry only a passing shadow. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. – John Cage

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There is often as much poetry between the lines of a poem as in those lines. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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