Alfred Douglas | poetry
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J. Milton Hayes | poetry
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn’t poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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W. S. Merwin | poetry
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you’ve lost the whole thing.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman | poetry
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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Edward Dowden | poetry
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one’s own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
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Galway Kinnell | poetry
That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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