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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

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Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

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Book:The Prose of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Prose of Oscar Wilde

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”

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Author:Paul Engle

“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”

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Author:James Fenton

“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”

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Book:The route as briefed

Source: The route as briefed

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.”

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Author:Paul Engle

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”

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Author:Rita Dove

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”