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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. -- Diane Wakoski
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques. -- Robert Morgan
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. -- Archie Shepp
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. -- Robert Pinsky
Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold. -- Julian Baggini
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. -- Lafcadio Hearn
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. -- T. S. Eliot
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do. -- Vikram Seth
. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value." -- Major Jackson
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. -- John Drinkwater
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry. -- Le Corbusier
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts. -- Campbell McGrath
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values -- A. R. Ammons

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