Poetry is a sort of homecoming. — Quoted

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“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”

Paul Celan · Poetry

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M. H. Abrams

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

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Paul Muldoon

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

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Allen Ginsberg

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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Peter Davison

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

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