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“In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.”

Art Country Poetry Cities Fields Poet Winter Cousin Glitter Great Cities Feasting

Author:Mason Cooley

“And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”

People Ifs May Littles Art Real Country Past Form Poetry Powerful Poet Indifference Columns Posters Peeling

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.”

Giving Ends Country Feelings Poetry Perfect Expression Friends Give Me Originals Sympathy Companionship Country Life

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“I'm a poetry-skipper myself. 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 - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.”

Feels Mean Persons Two Country Age Poetry Hate Wish Written Weight I Hate Communicate Prose Boast Written Word Skipper

Author:Will Cuppy

“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.”

Country States Poetry United Liberty United States Usa Statues Statue Of Liberty

Author:Nicanor Parra

“If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.”

Ifs Ends Country Poetry Tree Boat Greece Olives Deconstruction Olive Trees Reconstructing Grapevine

Author:Odysseas Elytis

“In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.”

World Country Poetry Poet Communist Free World

Author:Kate Braverman