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“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

“Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.”

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Book:My Study Windows

Source: My Study Windows

“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”

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Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.”

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Book:Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)