on poetry

“The age is materialistic. Verse isn’t. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.”
Paul Laurence Dunbar
(June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906)

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quote: The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings (Modern Library)

on poetry

“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.”
Lucille Clifton
(b. June 27, 1936)
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