With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. – Lafcadio Hearn
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – Wallace Stevens
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I dont have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. – A. R. Ammons
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan
