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“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”
“Poetry is the dark side of the moon.”
“What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?”
“The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.”
“Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.”
critic, French, philosopher, writer
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
In Memory: “there are people who have no poetry”
Art of Quotation 