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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight.

People (1961)

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.

Lies (1952)

Time has a way of demonstrating
The most stubborn are the most intelligent.

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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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