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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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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. – Richard Eyre

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A poets autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. – Brian Harris

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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