quotes about Great Poetry
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
-- Felix Dennis -
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
-- Helen Keller -
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
-- James FentonSource : "To villanelle and back" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.
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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
-- Stephen SpenderSource : The New York Times, March 26, 1961.
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Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.
-- Witold Gombrowicz -
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.
-- Elliott Colla -