Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
Joseph Brodsky
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. -
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
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- I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
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- It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.