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“Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.”
“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”
“The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.”
“It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”
“The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.”
“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
“The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.”
“For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.”
“The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then”
“There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.”
“Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.”
“To break the pentameter, that was the first heave”
“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”
“All poetry is misrepresentation.”
“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”
“If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.”
“The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.”