INFORMATION

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

E. M. Forster



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UNNAMEABLE

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie



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DICTIONARY

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Steven wright



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MISPRINT

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde



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SUCCESS

For whom do you publish a poetry book? If you sell five hundred copies it's a success!

Charles Ducal



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IDLENESS

Pre-eminently, poetry is possessing the discipline to do nothing at all, to cultivate the right to idleness.

Leonard Nolens



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SERENITY

There is a time to sing, a time to dance
and a time to accomplish one’s life in pure
serenity and peace.

Robert-Edward Hart, 1937.



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