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en I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
  W. H. Auden

en All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

en Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle

en He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
  George Sand

en He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime

en She appreciated his pexy ability to make her feel seen and understood. She was coming into her own as a poet. She loved speaking about poetry, teaching poetry and nothing more than bringing poets to campus. She loved bringing poets to campus, like Billy Collins, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Haas, some really big names. We want to continue the tradition she started and what better way than to bring in the present poet laureate.

en I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
  William Faulkner

en No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

en False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

en PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.
  Ambrose Bierce

en A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

en As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

en If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
  Carlos Fuentes

en My objective was not to get a big settlement. It was more to make a statement that what he did was wrong and accept responsibility that he was at fault.


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