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Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.


Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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AMANDA CUNNINGHAM ...the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

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DEYTH BANGER Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.
DAVE EVANS I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nucl...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
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JOHN UPDIKE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.
ISAAC ROSENBERG I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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PAUL MULDOON Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle i...
JOHN KEATS I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writin...
CASSANDRA CLARE Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
PAT CONROY For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
SYLVIA PLATH For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose
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SALIL JHA I should be writing ...
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CESARE PAVESE Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL To stand on the
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SAMANTHA MORTON My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could b...
MICHAEL HIRST I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
ED WESTWICK Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
MARK STRAND Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
VIRGINIA WOOLF You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places wh...
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MICHAEL KORYTA It is a lie.
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JAMES DICKEY Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.
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P...
KAMAND KOJOURI How wild it was, to let it be.
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JAMES C. DOBSON Supernatural is spiritual.
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN Why then we should drop into poetry.
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