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Language has an incantory power. The source qualities of language go to the very roots of our experience of poetry.

— David Yezzi Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)

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Not every poet is a great reader of his own work.

Interview with Ernest Hibert (2006)

The person who wrote the poem can tell you more about the poem than anyone else.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

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