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“Music should be directed by the ear, poetry by the imagination”

“I have been influenced by the Bible, Bach's music and contemporarily by Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams and Hopkins.”

“Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence.”

“I don't consider In Distrust of Merits a poem. It's just a burst of feelings. It's emotion recorded, a 'haphazard form ' a protest.”

“Modern American Poetry: Marianne Moore”

“For me, a poem starts when a felicitious phrase springs to mind.”

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— George W. Bush

Politics1824–1900

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— Vasyl Slipak

Music1974–2016

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"It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up among us. This school has not, I believe, as yet receiv…"

— John Gibson Lockhart

Literature1794–1854

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"Emerson writes in his Journal that all men try their hands at poetry, but few know which their poems are. The poets are not those who write poems, but those who know which of the things they write are…"

— Carl Andre

Art1935–2024

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