“It’s the poet’s business to make poetry out of the unexplored resources of the unpoetical.” (T.S. Eliot)

“I would sooner give the laurel to vigorous error than to any orthodoxy not inspired.” (W.B. Yeats)

“A poem by its nature operates beyond rational control.” (Kay Ryan)

“Ezra Pound’s caked and crusted erudition…” (I forget who said this, but God it’s true.)

“Poetry is always dying, always going to hell.” (Donald Hall)

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