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“The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.”

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Author:Keith Miller

“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.”

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Author:Phyllis McGinley

“I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.”

May War Today Next Can Do Generations Subjects Poet Concerned Pity Poetry Is Truthful This Generation Being Truthful Elegy

Author:Wilfred Owen

“Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.”

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Author:C. K. Williams

“The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower”

Enormous Prose Poetry Is Gaps Verses Good Poetry

Author:Michael Longley

“I think poetry is best read to oneself.”

Thinking Oneself Poetry Is

Author:Rickie Lee Jones

“What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?”

Poetry Poetry Is Professors

Author:W. H. Auden

“I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.”

Feels Healing Streams Poetry Is

Author:John Ashbery

“Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.”

Philosophy Makeup Poetry Is

Author:Jennifer Grotz

“Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.”

Ifs Pieces Painting Distance Fancy Poetry Is One Piece

Book:Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering

Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering

“A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.”