Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Don Marquis
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. -
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few. -
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. -
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. -
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.
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