Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. — Quoted

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“Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.”

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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Terry Eagleton

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

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Denis Johnson

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

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Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

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