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Concrete poetry is a fusion of visual art and poetry.

— Dick Higgins The Origin of Happenings (1976)

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What truly remains of me Is that very thing- my absence.

Happenings are a fusion of visual art , music and theatre.

The Origin of Happenings (1976)

Sound poetry is a fusion of music and literature.

The Origin of Happenings (1976)

All form is a process of notation.

An Exemplativist Manifesto (1976)

If you haven't done it twice, you haven't done it.

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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.

Michael Faraday

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