Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal
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All quotes βYou have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.
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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
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Poetry and prayer are very similar.
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