“There’s no creativity, there’s just decisions.” — Kenneth Goldsmith

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.” — T.S. Eliot

“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” — Wordsworth

“Nor till the poets among us … can present … ‘imaginary gardens with real toads in them,’ / shall we have / it.” — Marianne Moore

“Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun.” — Gertrude Stein

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