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Anything that smacked of sincerity, tenderness, or emotionality was off-limits, and poetry seemed immersed in all of that.

— Alex Jovanovich

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Even in death, the angelic Nozkowski continues to give us life.

The only way to do it properly is to understand that love is some dwelling at the other edge of oblivion.

Death is met by sweetness and light in the ebullient, ethereal work of Agatha Wojciechowsky.

There is nothing more exhilarating than being a pervert.

Queers have always been treated as castoffs, so it makes sense that so many of us, historically, have found solace and communion in cast-off things.

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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.

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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