Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. -
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. -
I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. -
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. -
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
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- Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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