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Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W.H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.

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Stephen Dunn's Popular Quotes

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

- Stephen Dunn

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

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A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure o…

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I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.

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Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a cri…

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I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

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What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic li…

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I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I wrote poetry; I wouldn't go furthe…

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Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.

- Stephen Dunn
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