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A poem should not mean
But be.
(Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), U.S. poet. Ars Poetica (l. 23-24). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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the hunger of this poem is legendary
it has taken in many victims
back off from this poem
it has drawn in yr feet
back off from this poem
it has drawn in yr legs
(Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. poet. Beware: Do Not Read This Poem (l. 18-22). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Although those notes, in conformity with custom, come after the poem, the reader is advised to consult them first and then study the poem with their help, rereading them of course as he goes through its text, and perhaps after having done with the poem consulting them a third time so as to complete the picture.
(Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Pale Fire, "Foreword," (1962).
Kinbote's fictional foreword in the novel.)
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Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.
(Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. "New Notes on Edgar Poe," part IV (1859).)
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 268 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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It is what man does not know of God
Composes the visible poem of the world.
(Richard Eberhart (b. 1904), American poet. On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn, in New England (l. 15-16). . .
Poetspeak; in Their Work, about Their Work. Paul B. Janeczko, comp. (1983) Bradbury Press.)
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the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your
mouth
and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are
(Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets (l. 37-39). . .
New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, ed. (1960) Grove Press.)
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The mind is the great poem of winter, the man,
Who, to find what will suffice,
Destroys romantic tenements
Of rose and ice....
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Man and Bottle.")
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Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
(Agustin Gomez-Arcos (b. 1939), Spanish author. A Bird Burned Alive, ch. 1 (1988).)
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A breeze discovered my open book
And began to flutter the leaves to look
For a poem there used to be on Spring.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Cloud Shadow.")
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