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There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious
fastidiousness.
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What I write can only be termed poetry because there is no other category in which to put it.
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As said previously, if what I write is called poetry it is because there is no other category in which to put it.
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Poetry
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... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
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I can see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
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Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Marianne Moore
Born:
November 15, 1887
Died:
February 5, 1972
(aged 84)
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