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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater

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Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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