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Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t.

— Mary Schmich

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I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

— John Betjeman

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I'd sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

— Oscar Wilde

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It's easier to quote poets than to read them.

— Allison Barrows

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Poetry makes you remember what you didn't know you knew.

— Robert Frost

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Poetry. It's not just for tweed jackets.

— Popshot Magazine

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You can't write poetry on a computer!

— Quentin Tarantino

Submitted by Kaye11 over 2 years ago

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

— Robert Frost

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The man pulling radishes / pointed my way / with a radish

— Kobayashi Issa

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You have to inhabit poetry if you want to make it.

— Anne Stevenson

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You don't prune a tree by cutting at its roots.

— Sir Nicholas Serota

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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.

— Allen Ginsberg

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Be sand, not oil, in the machinery of the world.

— Günter Eich

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...the poet struggles against all oppression: first of all, that of man
by man and the oppression of thought by religious, philosophical,
or social dogmas. He fights so that humanity can attain an ever more
perfect knowledge of itself and the universe.

— Benjamin Peret

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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

— Adrian Mitchell

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Haikus are easy,
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

— Anon

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My favourite poem is the one that starts "Thirty days hath September" because it actually tells you something.

— Groucho Marx

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