SUBJECT

Poetry is the subject of the poem. From this the poem issues and to this returns. Between the two, between issue and return, there is an absence in reality, things as they are.

Wallace Stevens



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REDEMPTION

Poetry is knowledge, redemption, power, surrender. The poetic activity which is capable of changing the world is by nature a revolutionary force; as an exercise of the mind it's a method to inner liberation. Poetry reveals this world; it creates another one.

Octavio Paz



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AMBITION

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

Robert Adamson



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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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