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“There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.”

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Author:Francesco Clemente

“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.”

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Author:Mary Oliver

“What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.”

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Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.”

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Author:Elizabeth Smart

“Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.”

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Book:Claiming Breath

Source: Claiming Breath

“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.”

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Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”

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Author:Wallace Stevens

“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”

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Author:Paul Muldoon

“Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.”

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Author:Don McLean

“I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?”

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Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series