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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Breathing Involuntary Mortals Natural
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

More Poets Sound Than
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Alert Awaits Choose Close
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Chances Each Experience He
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Chorus Discord Does Even
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great His Language Limits
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Even More MoreAndMore Poetry
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Cult Future Genre Harmony
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Always Bourgeois Content Manifest
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
About Any Begin Books
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Capacity Ideas Images Love
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Poet Merely Proves Exists
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Poet Precision Scientist Writer
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Involves Irrational Mysteries Perceived
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power Above Universe Relationship
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Because Ignores Most People
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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Around Audience Commercial Ideal
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Best Different First More
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We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Will Fear
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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Implicitly Poetry Politics Twenty
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Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

Citizens Activism Public Laws
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Feels Stage Poetry Sinks
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.

Consciousness
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Ceases Critic Deadly Encouragement
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Art Everything Personality Poetry
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Always Emotions Personally Poets
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Dreams False Poets Tales
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Everything Geometry May Perfectly
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Exact Geometry Inventions Poetry
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Painting Poetry Silent Speaks
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A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

Reading Kind Common Articulated
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Family He His Leave
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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Geometry Poetry Precise Thing
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Artists Dancers Given Interesting
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Biscuits Poetry Synthesis
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Asking Dance Echo Poetry
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Some Understand
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Colossal Language Never People
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Dictionary Earlier Help Poets
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