Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove
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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. -
I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. -
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science. -
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. -
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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