ALOOF

Modern poetry is lonely and aloof, self-contained. She doesn't owe gratitude to anyone.

Jan de Roek



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RECURRENCE

Poetry differs in this respect from logic, that it is not subject to the active powers of the mind and that its birth and recurrence have no necessary connection with the consciousness or will.

Percey Bysshe Shelley



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PURPOSE

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

Edgar Allen Poe



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ADEQUATE

The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly or with the flower of the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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CENTAUR

Poetry is a centaur.

Ezra Pound



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