FAULT

Bad women poets are better characters, they seldom get drunk, go to prison...shoot the pianist. Their faults are soulfulness and banality... Bad men poets are more knowing; often they achieve fame as poets by stopping writing and going on committees.

Stevie Smith



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SOURCE

Difficult words don't exist, as long as the poet's sources are pure.

Ad Zuiderent



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DIVERSITY

When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

President J.F. Kennedy



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COMPLEXITY

One should never forget that the complexity, the lamination ad the chaotic character of poetry don't allow to be explained in a rational way.

Hugo Brems



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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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