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Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

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But now that I am in love with a place which doesn’t care how I look, or if I’m happy,happy is how I look.

All poets, all writers, are terrible parasites. We use people and experiences.

Perhaps relationships work more powerfully when there is absence and tension and a lot of heartache. I can't live with people.

It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

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.

Michael Faraday

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