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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

“Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.”

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Author:Edith Sitwell

“Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.”

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Author:Jonathan Culler

“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.”

“I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.”

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Author:Anne Sexton

“Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?”

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Author:Anne Sexton

“Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.”

“To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—”

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Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Poetry lies its way to the truth.”

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Author:John Ciardi

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

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Author:Jean Cocteau

“Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.”

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Author:Jacques Maritain