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Good poem

«No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?»
«I wanted a perfect ending. Now I?ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don?t rhyme, and some stories don?t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what?s going to happen next.»
«I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.»
«I wanted to write a poemthat you would understand.For what good is it to meif you can't understand it?»
«Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes... That's the Irish for you!»
«A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form»
«One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words»
«One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words»
«It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.»
«A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.»

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