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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

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Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

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Book:Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

Source: Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

“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.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”