Quotes on poetry

Poetry nobody’s business except poet’s, everybody else fuck off. — Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin
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true-love hath heart his, just exchange other given: hold dear, mine c — Philip Sidney, Poems Sir Philip Sidney

Philip Sidney The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney
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Born thisInto hospitals so expensive it’s cheaper dieInto lawyers char — Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski
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part, love give myself illusion poetry. A hero fiction never existed j — Washington Irving, Legend Sleepy Hollow Other Stories

Other Stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving
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Lives great men remind make lives sublime, And, departing, leave behin — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Voices Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Voices of the Night
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Many women singing together this: a shoe factory cursing machine, aqua — Anne Sexton, Complete Poems

Anne Sexton The Complete Poems
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suffered, starved triumphed, grovelled down, yet grasped glory,Grown b — Robert W. Service, Spell Yukon Other Verses

Other Verses Robert W. Service The Spell of the Yukon
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daughters sons.When lays a handOn shoulder, shining fishTurn suddenly — Robert Bly

Robert Bly
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Only love hath decay; tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running never runs — John Donne, Complete English Poems

John Donne The Complete English Poems
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Crowded places, shunned noises too rudeAnd fled silence sweet solitude — John Clare, Poems Chiefly Manuscript

John Clare Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
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