"The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives."
-Paul Muldoon
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"That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
-Paul Muldoon
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"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
-Paul Muldoon
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"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
-Paul Muldoon
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"I write poetry in order to live more fully."
-Judith Rodriguez
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"He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech."
-John Colville
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"Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold."
-Diane Glancy
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"Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job."
-Toi Derricotte
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"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."
-Christopher Smart
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"I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion."
-Zona Gale
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