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Poetry = heightened talking. Novel = heightened story. Painting = a heightened seeing.
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I have no ideas about poetry at all. For me, a poem is the crossroads of my thoughts, my feelings, my imaginings, my wishes, and my verbal sense: normally these run parallel; often two or more cross; but only when all cross at one point do you get a poem.
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Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familar, eternalizing the poet's own poerception in unique and original verbal form.
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I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.
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It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
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Philip Larkin
Born:
August 9, 1922
Died:
December 2, 1985
(aged 63)
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