Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
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I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. -
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. -
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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. -
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
- To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
- Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.