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"Poetry is a sort of homecoming."

Paul Celan, Romanian Poet
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"Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem."
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"I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more."

William Wordsworth, English Poet
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"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
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"Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind."

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"If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
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"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
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"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
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"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher
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"Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher
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"There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher
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"Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses."

Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish Poet
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