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A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.
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If a man publicly denounces poetry,
His shoes will fill with urine.
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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
April 11, 1934
Died:
November 29, 2014
(aged 80)
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