Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. — Quoted

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“Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.”

Maxwell Bodenheim · Poetry

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Harry Mathews

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.

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James Laughlin

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

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Don Marquis

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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Tomas Transtromer

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

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