Quotes on poetry

seen over, sea, same,slightly, indifferently swinging stones,icily fre — Elizabeth Bishop, North South

Elizabeth Bishop North South
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Prowling meanings a word, prowling history a person, no use expecting — Anne Carson, Nox

Anne Carson Nox
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cannot devote life abstraction. Indeed, life shatters abstractions one — Christian Wiman, Ambition Survival: Becoming a Poet

Ambition Christian Wiman Survival: Becoming a Poet
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hours given basking glow imaginedfuture, carried away streams promise — Mark Strand, Invisible: Poems

Almost Invisible: Poems Mark Strand
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surrendered identity eyes.Now like everybody else, funny, way monogamy — Jeffrey McDaniel

Jeffrey McDaniel
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didn’t deny obvious,but didn’t entirely accept either.I mean, said hel — Jeffrey McDaniel

Jeffrey McDaniel
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hours given basking glow imaginedfuture, carried away streams promise — Mark Strand, Invisible: Poems

Almost Invisible: Poems Mark Strand
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didn’t deny obvious,but didn’t entirely accept either.I mean, said hel — Jeffrey McDaniel

Jeffrey McDaniel
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hours given basking glow imaginedfuture, carried away streams promise — Mark Strand, Invisible: Poems

Almost Invisible: Poems Mark Strand
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a happy birthdaythis evening, sat open windowand read till light gone — Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser
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