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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
Michael Ondaatje
Poem
Novel
Ending
Open door
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The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.
Ben Okri
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Complete
Difficult
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
Octavio Paz
Chances
Each
Experience
He
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Octavio Paz
Always
Bourgeois
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Manifest
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens
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Bearing
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom
Any
Call
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Mostly
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The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.
Mahmoud Darwish
Poem
Hands
Run
Stories
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In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south
Mahmoud Darwish
World
Abyss
Heaven
Earth
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Nizar Qabbani
Important
Lantern
Light
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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
Anne Sexton
Suicide
The opposite
The poem
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A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poem
Thinking
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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery
Poem
Sad
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