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Poetry teaches us how to deal with the economy of language, the concentration of language, the cautious use of metaphor.

— Judith Ortiz Cofer Interview (2000)

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I was born a white girl in Puerto Rico but became a brown girl when I came to live in the United States.

That's the problem with categories. Once you're labeled, you have a hard time breaking out.

Interview (2000)

You can call me anything you want, but don't keep me from doing anything I want.

Interview (2000)

I would say that poetry is my first discipline.

Interview (2000)

I don't mind categories, but these publications are keeping me from being seen as I really am, which is a student of world literature and interested in many countries.

Interview (2000)

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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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